Victoria House

A walk through a scan of a tropical greenhouse, which can be turned to dust, dropped on the floor, or shown as the shapes it is made of.

Click the picture, then drag to look and walk with W A S D or the arrow keys (Shift to hurry). On a phone, the lower left of the picture is a thumb stick. The wheel, or the Reach slider, pulls the dust in around you. R reveal, X structure, C collapse, G guided walk.

A 41 metre walk: along the brick path, up five steps, around the wooden deck beside the lily pond, down the ramp and back. Sound is not made yet.

The place is a scan, made of five million soft coloured shapes called Gaussians. Let the guided walk play, or walk it yourself. The route, the height of each floor and what the guide turns to look at were measured from the scan.

The picture is put through a phone's camera: 30 frames a second, blur while the camera moves, the lean of a rolling shutter, a little lens distortion and sensor noise. The Phone camera button turns that off.

Three buttons act on every Gaussian at once, and the Reach slider sets how far around you the place stays whole.

  • Reveal turns the place to dust and lets it settle again, outwards from where the walker stands.
  • Structure swaps the picture for the outlines of the Gaussians it is made of.
  • Collapse drops everything onto the floor. The walk ends this way, then begins again from the dust.

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