I don't understand why I can't just walk around the museum and discover things for myself.
I can't even navigate to the devices and inventions section with a single click on the listing page. The 3D scene is really well done, it would be nice if you just let people walk around freely instead of animating the camera.
And I also think you shouldn't automatically display the image in 2D, breaks my immersion immediately.
It starts with no controls, just a picture. I hit esc. Things start moving. It keeps moving, I keep hitting esc, it doesn't stop. I try ctrl-c , no dice. I look around the frame for buttons. I try one of the buttons, it moves faster. I hold down esc. It doesn't respond to holding down esc either . I see no way to gain control. At no point do I gain control.
Ultimately it stops. Fine. Ok, no response to WASD. No response to drag motion. I click "Instruments" , I get a side-bar "instruments of the museum" with no contents. I click in the side bar. Now I can't close it, and other controls are gone. I try hitting esc. Multiple random clicks later i'm back where I started.
I try the "more" button", I am now looking at a painting sideways, and an anodyne text which explains very little. I click on a painting. Things start moving. I hit Esc. Suddenly the painting is full screen. GREAT. Ok, and now how do I get out? Esc? Oh esc. Ok NOW ESC... oh no, things are moving again. I didn't mean for things to move. Esc shouldn't cause things to START moving. hit esc again. The esc is ignored.
I end up at another painting. I try some buttons. Most don't work. I hit esc again. Things start moving. I didn't mean to move away from the painting, I just had it in front of me!
I am very confused.
I'm not in control here.
edit: "Esc shouldn't cause things to START moving"
Thank you for the detailed feedback. You are right, there should be a way to stop the walk while it moves. We will add that. ESC to close is however intended. The Instruments panel closes with the button at its bottom, but more intuitive would be at the top and we will move it there. The walk is guided on purpose, so WASD and dragging don’t work, but we should say that.
For the record I did not have any of the issues of the above person. I did try to click off the initial image but when I couldn't, I saw the big yellow button which I pressed and realized it was on rails and everything went smoothly from there.
The setup misses everything that you could do to let me experience his work in a setting reflecting his time.
An Italian Renaissance palazzo, the house of a nobleman of that time, maybe Leonardo's re-imagined studio etc.
Instead I see a museum that one of my architect friends might get excited (or offended) about but which completely removes all context from the works that the format you choose would otherwise naturally enable.
On that note: getting the colors of the paintings right is also tricky.
When you source these paintings you need to feed their color to a linearization process (as they likely will be in some non-linear color space like sRGB) before applying any scene lighting.
And then finally do the display transform.
Otherwise horrible things will happen (do happen in your current setup) to the colors and Leonardo will turn once in his grave every time someone opens the website. ;)
Thank you for the feedback. The later stops are his last house in Amboise which we rebuilt. For the earlier stops we decided on a building to serve the walk as well as possible.
On colors: we decoded the images from sRGB, but the color filter over the scene and the video change them a bit on the wall. We will look into it. The close view shows them unchanged.
Agreed. It is one of the notebooks we could not put on our reading table. We found no copy online that is free to use, so the museum lists it as missing.
I went through the first few images. It is really good to see scale placed over the painting.
I don’t like that I cannot move around by myself. Move to another piece is too slow… also entering museum (at first it is nice gimmick, the second entry is annoying as museum doesn’t remember my position; or I haven’t figured it out :)
Thanks. Yes, it is not possible to move around freely, that was a compromise we made to keep it accessible for older devices and older people. If you click the arrow it moves faster by the way. In the settings there is also a speed setting. Actually the address keeps your stop and a reload should bring you back to where you were.
I can't even navigate to the devices and inventions section with a single click on the listing page. The 3D scene is really well done, it would be nice if you just let people walk around freely instead of animating the camera.
And I also think you shouldn't automatically display the image in 2D, breaks my immersion immediately.
It starts with no controls, just a picture. I hit esc. Things start moving. It keeps moving, I keep hitting esc, it doesn't stop. I try ctrl-c , no dice. I look around the frame for buttons. I try one of the buttons, it moves faster. I hold down esc. It doesn't respond to holding down esc either . I see no way to gain control. At no point do I gain control.
Ultimately it stops. Fine. Ok, no response to WASD. No response to drag motion. I click "Instruments" , I get a side-bar "instruments of the museum" with no contents. I click in the side bar. Now I can't close it, and other controls are gone. I try hitting esc. Multiple random clicks later i'm back where I started.
I try the "more" button", I am now looking at a painting sideways, and an anodyne text which explains very little. I click on a painting. Things start moving. I hit Esc. Suddenly the painting is full screen. GREAT. Ok, and now how do I get out? Esc? Oh esc. Ok NOW ESC... oh no, things are moving again. I didn't mean for things to move. Esc shouldn't cause things to START moving. hit esc again. The esc is ignored.
I end up at another painting. I try some buttons. Most don't work. I hit esc again. Things start moving. I didn't mean to move away from the painting, I just had it in front of me!
I am very confused.
I'm not in control here.
edit: "Esc shouldn't cause things to START moving"
An Italian Renaissance palazzo, the house of a nobleman of that time, maybe Leonardo's re-imagined studio etc.
Instead I see a museum that one of my architect friends might get excited (or offended) about but which completely removes all context from the works that the format you choose would otherwise naturally enable.
On that note: getting the colors of the paintings right is also tricky.
When you source these paintings you need to feed their color to a linearization process (as they likely will be in some non-linear color space like sRGB) before applying any scene lighting. And then finally do the display transform. Otherwise horrible things will happen (do happen in your current setup) to the colors and Leonardo will turn once in his grave every time someone opens the website. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester
which really needs to escape off the platter and be more accessible.
I don’t like that I cannot move around by myself. Move to another piece is too slow… also entering museum (at first it is nice gimmick, the second entry is annoying as museum doesn’t remember my position; or I haven’t figured it out :)
Cheers.
Closing the page right there.