3D Virtual Reality at the Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City

The Dennos Museum Center in cooperation the Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois - Urbana Champagne presents CANVAS where mathematical equations become art in a 3-D virtual world. A CANVAS (Collaborative Advanced Navigation Virtual Art Studio) is a room-sized immersive 3D environment with origins in CAVE technology from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Chicago. It is scalable, reconfigurable display technology for modern art museums and is not intended as a work itself but as an environment to facilitate the creation and display of immersive art works. CANVAS is collaborative because it can be connected to an array of geographically dispersed immersive virtual spaces, has advanced navigation to allow viewers in different locations to interact with virtual art and allows for the creation and presentation of virtual art that exists not in two or three-dimensional space like a painting or sculpture but in the multi-dimensional virtual world.