Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia

kept by eddie oct 09

The article showcases a web-based, navigable 3D museum that visualizes art history data sourced from Wikipedia and lets users explore artistic movements and works in an interactive virtual environment.

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Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art
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Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet
Wikipedia faces existential threats from political polarization, AI-generated content, and foreign interference, with a former ambassador leading its defense.
also on Wikipedia, #open-source, #user-experience
The Invention of Islamic Invention - Cremieux Recueil
A rogue Wikipedia editor falsely attributed numerous inventions to Muslim scholars during the Islamic Golden Age, spreading misinformation that scholars and media now repeat as fact.
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Running LLMs in the Browser with Three.js
Three-LLM enables running GPT-2, SmolLM2, Qwen, and Phi language models in the browser by converting their inference graphs into Three.js TSL compute shaders on WebGPU.
also on Three.js, #web-development, #open-source