Michelangelo 3D Slideshow
Penn Libraries recently announced a cool new way to explore the image collection at the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library. Here is a Michelangelo Slideshow I made in a few seconds – click the blue arrow at top to start. The CoolIris 3D software may require a plug-in download. You can create a rich browsing experience for images that you choose to include.
To make this show, I started at the image collection page, chose Michelangelo from the Artist box at right and narrowed my search to records with digital images. You can make slideshows for a particular class session and email your students the link, or use PennTags to collect them for later use. The collection also has more than 100,000 high-resolution images you can add to your PowerPoint presentations. I also foresee uses in conference presentations.
Very neat tool, Anu. Thanks for sharing. I see how this works in the Penn Libraries pages, but am not familiar enough with the Cooliris plugin to understand what exactly is happening here. Can people make a slideshow with images from their own files?
Hi Lisa, Yes, I think if you make yourself an account on CoolIris you can then make a slideshow of your own images. (I have not tried to do this!) The power I think though comes from the way the collection search tool works with the pictures – so you don’t have to manually select the pictures first. best, Anu