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I was born on a cold September morning at the Gary Methodist Hospital in Gary Indiana. The year was 1966 and the world was much different then. At the time we all lived on or near clay street in Miller across the tracks from the predominantly rich Jewish community of Miller Beach in Gary Indiana. Lots of poor, young men died in Vietnam so that wealthy people could have dinner parties and celebrate the deaths of those young men. If I were old enough to understand what was going on I would have new hero's besides Batman,Superman,Spiderman, and they would be the Weathermen, The Black Panther Party, And the Grateful Dead. Keep up this great space modding is a wonderful hobbie and code is fun. ~ Bret ~
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GalleryVirtuality
Special thank you to Andre Miripolsky for his wonderful artwork, he can be contacted at miripolskystudio@gmail.com for more information on his great works of art.
PROJECT SUMMARY: The GalleryVirtuality Project is an Open Source creator community of users and developers co-creating GalleryVirtuality, a "Neutral Zone" virtual environment using the Quake III Game Engine that simulates a modern art gallery and is completely disarmed. The gallery space can be used by artists to show work in a virtual environment familiar to patrons of the arts. The viewer can wander through the rooms, look at the art, get information about the art and artist, with no time limit or distractions. A music track may be added for ambiance. The code is greatly simplified which makes it a useful tool for viewing maps and features in the design phase at one's leisure. The simplified code environment also can help students of gaming design or the visual arts learn basic coding skills and to simulate how art might express in a physical environment.GVP NEWS: GVP TRENDS TOWARD SUMMER 2015 BETAThe GalleryVirtuality Project plowed through the winter holidays adding functionality and some community assets. Bret Colin Sheppard, Code Guru, is working on taking two ends to make a middle. He is determined to create a much simpler interface for artists who want to participate in the project. The working goal of the BETA (SUMMER 2015!) is to have "the average artist" who also uses a computer regularly, to be able to use some kind of interface where they can choose a pre-set gallery style, upload standard-sized art files to pre-set locations in the various rooms, upload an MP3 for "ambiance" music and then the gallery is rendered into the 3-D environment. Artists who are also code-monkeys are welcome to either contribute to this goal, add more features, or take the Open Source concept into mind-bendingly alternative ideas.On the Community side, Karen Christine Patrick the "Cruise Director" has created several supporting assets for what we hope will be the Brain Trust of the GVP. Says Patrick, "We are welcoming interested artists who want to learn to code, coders who are artists or like the idea of the designing Neutral Zone we got going. Hoping we can widen the community much further in the future. Download Gallery Virtuality Onedrive.live.com Gallery Mapper Onedrive.live.com GV Source Code Onedrive.live.com
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