[HN Gopher] Interactive tour of James Clerk Maxwell's house
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Interactive tour of James Clerk Maxwell's house
Author : joebig
Score : 59 points
Date : 2023-12-15 10:31 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (clerkmaxwellfoundation.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (clerkmaxwellfoundation.org)
| joebig wrote:
| The online tour of renowned physicist Maxwell's house in
| Edinburgh. UI is responsive & attractive. Lots of trivia and
| tidbits scattered about the house like Easter eggs to click on!
| gizajob wrote:
| On my android phone this is like touring Maxwell's house on DMT
| while drunk. The image is spinning round like crazy and hugely
| over-sensitive. Enjoyable though
| noSyncCloud wrote:
| Disable the gyro controls (open the settings at bottom left and
| tap on the cellphone icon). Then you can navigate normally.
| ggm wrote:
| An interactive tour of the JCMB would be somewhat pedestrian.
| Presumably a tour of the DHT ends with asbestos and a leaky
| rooftop view
| parenthesis wrote:
| The David Hume Tower has been renamed 40 George Square.
| lelag wrote:
| This type of 360 photo media experience will soon be replaced by
| 3d gaussian / Nerf realtime render as demonstrated by the Smerf
| project which was trending yesterday:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38632492
|
| Add a VR viewer and the experience will start to be really close
| to seeing the real thing...
|
| I wonder if, at some point, there might not be a push back from
| museum and tourist attractions against using too immersive
| virtual experience for fear of hurting the number of actual
| visitors. (Although I guess, they could just charge for the
| virtual access to make up for an eventual loss).
| codecalec wrote:
| I've actually done some volunteer work at the James Clerk Maxwell
| house. The people who run it are great and love to show people
| around if you want an in-person tour. Just email and they can
| organise a time.
| drcongo wrote:
| Did you get to meet that excellent dog that's in the hallway
| when you enter this tour?
| arethuza wrote:
| I hope the dog's name is "Daftie" :-)
| imagine99 wrote:
| I would really like to know what the whole tech stack was to
| produce this: Which camera system was used to record these images
| and what platform they used for building the 3D experience?
|
| The pictures must be of insane resolution, as you can zoom in to
| read even the smallprint on all the posters clearly (imagine
| Google StreetView like this). And I didn't really notice any
| stitching, tripods etc.
|
| Also they have cleverly embedded video animations in some of the
| rooms 360 degree images. These were clearly recorded separately
| but I still haven't fully figured out how they added them. Very
| well done and indeed probably almost as good as being there in
| person.
| everly wrote:
| You could produce this using one of several 360deg cameras
| (e.g. Ricoh Theta, Insta360 X3) for the images, and then using
| 3D Vista to create the tour experience, embedded media, etc.
| zoogeny wrote:
| I have a friend in real estate who uses matterport [1] to do
| something similar to this. They have tools to do animations
| very close to what is happening here. Even the circular cursor
| looks similar.
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| 1. https://matterport.com/
| benzofuran wrote:
| If you're ever in Edinburgh, this is an excellent place to visit
| and spend an afternoon. One of the funniest parts was upon
| walking in the door, the gentleman who greeted me asked "What
| kind of engineer are you?" Very worthwhile.
| arethuza wrote:
| And of course, everyone _should_ go to Edinburgh....
|
| _But Edinburgh is a mad god's dream
|
| Fitful and dark,
|
| Unseizable in Leith
|
| And wildered by the Forth,
|
| But irresistibly at last
|
| Cleaving to sombre heights
|
| Of passionate imagining
|
| Till stonily,
|
| From soaring battlements,
|
| Earth eyes Eternity_
| joebig wrote:
| Where is this from? I find Edinburgh cemetery to be a wierdly
| welcoming tourist attraction.
| arethuza wrote:
| It's the poem _Edinburgh_ by Hugh MacDiarmid:
|
| https://nishsrivastava.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/edinburgh-
| by...
| dboreham wrote:
| Shamefully, I grew up in Edinburgh, am an EE, my Dad was an EE,
| also lived in Edinburgh, and I never knew there was a Maxwell
| house there. I suppose I assumed he only lived on his estate or
| in Cambridge. There's a statue of him at the end of George St
| also.
| oh_sigh wrote:
| Does he ask everyone, or do you just have the je ne sais quoi
| of an engineer?
| crispyambulance wrote:
| It's very stylish and tasteful!
|
| It looks like the house of someone who was very wealthy by at
| least today's standards, but I see that he came from a
| comfortable but not rich family.
|
| Curious, wouldn't a home like that be considered wealthy?
| Certainly it looks like something that would need staff to keep
| up when it was a household.
| maccard wrote:
| Those houses PS2-3m+. Here's [0] the first one I found in the
| same area-ish. [0]
| https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139059236#/?channel=R...
| lfmunoz4 wrote:
| Looks very inaccurate. When I go there I would have expected to
| be able to experience the house as James Clerk Maxwell would
| have, and therefore give me more of a sense of getting to know
| him by experiencing what he would have experienced on a daily
| basis.
|
| Why would I go to his house to look at posters giving
| information, makes no sense I could look at that information from
| home no need to go all the way to his actual house.
| amelius wrote:
| I'd like to know if the pictures on the wall were there (and in
| the same place) when he lived there.
| joebig wrote:
| The place has been remodeled as a museum. So, authenticity as
| in true-to-his-time is evidently somewhat diminished. But
| plenty of info pertaining to provenance is provided upon
| clicking the wall pictures. The portraits of Maxwell's numerous
| scientific contemporaries will obviously would not have been
| there during his years.
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