Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater Imported Into Sinespace; Visit Via the Web

If you have a WebGL-enabled browser, click here to visit a scale replica of Fallingwater in Sinespace. Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece was imported into the virtual world by Austin Tate, who explains how he did so on his blog:

A lovely 3D openly accessible and modifiable model of the house and environment was created by Myles Zhang on Sketchfab.com [ Download Resources ] using 3D model source files originally by nottamun on 3dwarehouse.sketchup.com.

I extracted the Collada (DAE) model of Fallingwater with its associated textures and imported those to Unity3D adding in some surrounding terrain. The trees and bushes were mostly replaced using Unity3D free assets and waterfall details were added and animated. Building and ground lighting was added, along with a day/night cycle. 

The ambient sounds in the environment are an especially nice touch. More here, and on Austin's Twitter:

Fallingwater via Unity to @sinewavespace using open source 3D models by Myles Zhang (https://t.co/5OyIUSb8xr) and nottamun (https://t.co/MdoIhXbhf8). Images and details at https://t.co/xGmYuuVDAI pic.twitter.com/hKveBEzis8

— Ai Austin (@aiaiaustin) July 27, 2018

You don't need an account to visit, by the way -- you can just select a pre-generated default avatar to jump right into the experience.  

Disclosure: Sinespace is a sponsoring partner to NWN.

Comments

[Blarg Yargison]

this is pretty amazing and I'm reminded that over ten years ago reading about Frank Lloyd Wright I had first heard of a thing called Second Life where you could walk around Falling Water.

[Sheila Yoshikawa]

There is a Fallingwater build still available on the SL marketplace https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Shoji-Falling-Water-14-Sim/7944058 which I have rezzed on my land at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noyo/33/172/60 - I'm nothing to do with the builder, I just fell in love with the house.