The Divine Comedy(Divina Commedia) is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri. The objective here is to interpret the poem into a space which we human never experience before.
©Gustave Doré
©Gustave Doré
©Gustave Doré
Purgatorio
Quinci fuor quete le lanose gote al nocchier de la livida palude, che 'ntorno a li occhi avea di fiamme rote.
So out of here the woolly cheeks to the helmsman of the livid swamp, who had flames round his eyes.
— Divina Commedia/Inferno/Canto III
Inferno
Poi pinse l'uscio a la porta sacrata, dicendo: "Intrate; ma facciovi accorti che di fuor torna chi 'n dietro si guata".
Then he pinned the door to the sacred door, saying: "Go in; but be aware that he who is behind comes back from outside."
— Divina Commedia/Purgatorio/Canto IX
Paradiso
Così vid' ïo la gloriosa rota muoversi e render voce a voce in tempra e in dolcezza ch'esser non pò nota.
Thus I saw the glorious rail move and render voice to voice in temper and in sweetness that to be not known.
— Divina Commedia/Paradiso/Canto X
Rendering and sketch of Purgatorio
Rendering and sketch of Inferno
Rendering and sketch of Paradiso
Device and Workflow
- Modeling the scene is the first step to translate an imagination to digital world.
- Baking the scene by VRay ensured the frame rate in VR is over 60 without dizziness.
- The VR platform Worldviz owns a friendly coding environment of Python and the interaction can easily created with codes.
- The user interacts with the visual world by the controller.
VR demo of Dante's Divine Comedy.