Genre | Fluid Interface, Animated Timeline |
Author | Cyril Diagne, Nicolas Barradeau (Google Cultural Institute) |
Year | 2017 |
Field | Art History |
Theme | Exploring collections |
Period | Prehistory, Antiquity, Postclassical, Modern, Contemporary |
View | 3D, Timeline |
License | Not specified |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
URL | artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/free-fall |
FREE FALL is one of Google Arts & Culture Experiments, part of the GOOGLE ARTS AND CULTURE platform, providing a spectacular virtual experience in which thousands of artworks are suspended in a black 3D space resembling the cosmos.
The project consists of a fluid interface in which four different visualisa'tions are available to explore the vastness and diversity of the collections aggregated. The first one, called 'Big Bang', presents the artworks arranged haphazardly. In the second, named 'Sphere', the artefacts are distributed in a sphere according to a calculation based on the Golden Ratio. The third one instad, 'Waves', organises the digital items in a playful, moving topology. They all play with curiosity and serendipity, facilitating encounters with lesser-known artefacts or with ones considered of minor importance.
The most functional visualisation is instead the fourth and most conventional one: 'Timeline'. It is the only one to directly produce the knowledge it drafts, by letting users discover the distribution of the artworks across time, as well as highlighting museums’ predominant coverage of certain periods over other ones.
Genre | Fluid Interface, Animated Timeline |
Author | Cyril Diagne, Nicolas Barradeau (Google Cultural Institute) |
Year | 2017 |
Field | Art History |
Theme | Exploring collections |
Period | Prehistory, Antiquity, Postclassical, Modern, Contemporary |
View | 3D, Timeline |
License | Not specified |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
URL | artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/free-fall |
FREE FALL is one of Google Arts & Culture Experiments, part of the GOOGLE ARTS AND CULTURE platform, providing a spectacular virtual experience in which thousands of artworks are suspended in a black 3D space resembling the cosmos.
The project consists of a fluid interface in which four different visualisa'tions are available to explore the vastness and diversity of the collections aggregated. The first one, called 'Big Bang', presents the artworks arranged haphazardly. In the second, named 'Sphere', the artefacts are distributed in a sphere according to a calculation based on the Golden Ratio. The third one instad, 'Waves', organises the digital items in a playful, moving topology. They all play with curiosity and serendipity, facilitating encounters with lesser-known artefacts or with ones considered of minor importance.
The most functional visualisation is instead the fourth and most conventional one: 'Timeline'. It is the only one to directly produce the knowledge it drafts, by letting users discover the distribution of the artworks across time, as well as highlighting museums’ predominant coverage of certain periods over other ones.
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