2D3D

2D3D was an early netart piece, part of the exhibit ‘Port’ at the List Center Gallery, MIT, 1997. A user selects a webpage, and the perl/vrml software would translate the site into 3D.

The program would read the text, the images and the html code to generate specific shapes and backgrounds, so forming a unique portrait of the site.

Rhyzome.org’s 2D page on the left, and the 3D output of the same on the right.

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2D web page about Elvis on the left, 3D figure on the right.

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The archive stored the links to the webpages on the left, and the 3D figures were displayed on the right.