Elise Fraley
Together with the famous “Sunflowers”, “The Starry Night” is one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings. This wonderful canvas dates from 1889. It represents the starry sky over Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), seen from the room occupied by the artist in the village shelter. The work can be viewed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (USA). But recently, she also has her 3D version in “Minecraft”.
We owe this work to a player named Chris Dako. Post a video to realize it all in pixels In the Reddit forum. Instead of displaying the painting in two dimensions, the designer preferred to reproduce the scene painted by the Dutch artist in three dimensions. Thus we can fly over the village and then sail through the sky, which makes up the bulk of the board, to cross the yellow whirlpools and whirlpools.
To be as close as possible to what the artist believes
“I set this goal for myself because ‘The Starry Night’ is a place where you know you’ll enjoy walking. I wanted to be able to look up at the sky from inside the village and see the sky there as it appears in Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’, according to Chris Dako’s testimony, according to computer games and leave by BFM TV.
The designer had to face many difficulties to achieve his goals. In the end, it took a month of work to create this scene. The video game “Minecraft”, acquired by Microsoft in 2014, has a modular universe made of cube shapes.
