Piazza (Souvenir d'Italie)

VRML file: vrml/vrml.wrl Textures, source image, and models can be found in the vrml/ directory.

The painting was discovered while searching for studies in perspective. More information available here



This is a minimalistic painting with many opportunities for perspective projection. The areas of study were the leftmost building, the statue and base, and its near surroundings (the ground and rightmost structure).



The vrml model is flawed and sparse, but the building's result is impressive.

Here is an example of a texture map from the left building:

The artifact creation process took some getting used to, and requires very close attention to detail. The original plan of extracting the entire statue proved to be a bit ambitious given the limited patience of the artist. The result comes from several hours of labor, and is yet a mere proof of concept. Counting the work so far as a learning experience, this painting could be brought fully to life with another day's work at most.