Virtual Cistercian Monastery (with sound)

A quick tour of a virtual Cistercian monastery. Though not based on any particular monastery, it closely resembles 12th-century Burgundian examples, like the monastery of Clairvaux, for example (see http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/A/ABB/abbey-11.html ), The model was made with AC3D, lit with Gile[s], and converted to an online 3D environment using Blink 3D. The Gregorian chant is sung by the monks of St. Benedict's monastery in São Paulo, Brazil (http://www.mosteiro.org.br).

Category:

Education

Tags:

• virtual
• heritage
• monks
• monastic
• medieval
• church
• architecture
• cistercian
• web3d

[Oreosforlunch]

A good attempt. Perhaps if you were to add what each room was. The feasting room could be confused for the chapel and that might have been what caused some of the confusion. I understand that you probably couldn't decorate the altar anymore than you did, so it was difficult to tell if there as an altar at certain points.

[ggunhouse]

@Oreosforlunch

You are right, I should add comments identifying each room. I will do that when I have a chance. If you view the Blink 3D environment itself, you will see that each room is identified by a label, which can be turned off or kept on.

[ggunhouse]

Are you talking about the YouTube video or the Blink environment? You can't really know what the quality of the textures is like from looking at the YouTube video, since it is much degraded from the video I uploaded, which itself was a pale reflection of what the environment looks like within the Blink 3D viewer.

[Ancientvine]

Nice work, interesting.

[Catholiques]

wow thats pretty great...

[hakurate]

Horrible Textures and PLease raise the Anti-Aliasing to a higher multiple.

[gabaedu]

Very interesting!