> From: vanevery@rbdc.rbdc.com (Brandon Van every)
>
> > I've been rather stuck about what to do with Van Gogh. It seems that
> > if one is going to be somewhat "true" to a work, and bother to call it
> > "VR Van Gogh," then that places some limitations on what kinds of
> > things you could do with it. His work is pretty much portraits,
> > landscapes, and figure studies of people he knew and places he lived.
> > One seems almost required to do a biography, or a work of historical
> > fiction. I'm sure this would be a terribly fascinating project, but
> > it's not really the genre I had in mind.
>
> If I were to do it (which I'm not :-), I'd do a van Gogh room, such
> that everything you see is in his style. You can start with his
> bed and the walls, and a dresser containing a vase of flowers,
> such that wherever you are, when you look at things they all have
> his kind of texture and colouring. Then you could have a couple
> of views out the windows along those lines, and transitions from
> day to night. It would be an eerie place to go to.
How about a Fred Flintstone room? All the furniture could be made out of
rocks and animal skin. Maybe the shock of seeing a 3D-like movie with scenes
that were made familiar in 2D cartoons is what draws people to these
"Cartoon made Real" movies like "The Flintstones", "Batman", and "Casper".
Personally, I find the above paragraph to be rather silly, but people pay
to see that stuff.
How about Jurassic Park? Now there's an idea. We could even use the
original rendering techniques from the movie.
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