Low-cost VRML based architecture for adaptive and user customized virtual visits to art galleries

This paper presents an innovative procedure, capable to automatically generate virtual environments which are applicable to art galleries, museums or similar facilities, and suitable for web-based promotions of artists and their works. The presented system is part of the outcome of an interdisciplinary research for low-cost and platform independent solutions to combine art with virtual reality with the aim to promote artist works through new interaction metaphors which include dynamic 3D visualization of works of art with associated structured multimedia information.