3D Model of the Building of Sorority Amicitia for Their 100th Anniversary

November 27, 2024

3D Wayfinder cooperates with large shopping malls, airports, train stations, universities and other similar institutions on a daily basis. In most cases, we do not deal with projects with seven rooms and the floor area of ​​that is proportional to a typical single-family residence. However, this project is personally special and much more important than it seems at first.

Sorority Amicitia is founded in Tartu, Estonia. This November, Amicitia celebrated its 100th anniversary. As part of the jubilee celebrations, the Amicitia exhibition “A Century Under the Lilac Sorority Cap” is held in the library of the University of Tartu. As part of the exhibition, 3D Wayfinder made a Premium 3D model of the building of Sorority Amicitia.

Premium 3D Model and First Person View

Premium 3D model was chosen because it was important to bring out very precise details. The model is more of a sight in itself than a wayfinding tool. The value of this model lies in the abundance of small details. Nevertheless, the model also has a wayfinding function. This time we decided to try a FPS (first person view), instead of the classic wayfinding top-view for path visualization. For this kind of project, the “First Person View” works perfectly and brings good -real life kind of emotions.

Clickable Billboards and Pop-up Windows

Floating billboards that are clickable are use to mark the rooms. Also billboards are always facing towards user/camera. In addition, when you click on the billboard, a pop-up modal window appears with text describing the room. Such a solution was important, because house tours are usually held in these rooms to present Amiticia’s activities. The text in the Pop-Ups is similar to the text spoken during the tours.

In addition to the locations of the rooms, the locations of various things are tagged in the model. The model has several furniture items that are model in more detail. The most important items are add as POI (point of interest) and are also located in the menus. It is also possible to find a way to them. When you click on an item in the menu, it will flash gold and dark green (this can be configured in 3D Wayfinder Administration panel). Blinking indicates that the item is clickable and you will be guid to it. Clicking will also open a pop-up modal window next to the item. In addition to the introduction text, real pictures are also attach to all items.

Moving Animated Avatars

Additionally, we have discussed adding people to the 3D model as animated avatars. But we don’t plan on adding traditional human figures. Instead, we had in mind to make the avatars moving and differ them by their lilac sorority caps. So that life at the building would seem more lively. By the way, moving people can also be added to our other models, but this is not out of the box solution. If you are interested, please contact our sales manager. Positioning avatars with iBeacons, it would be possible to locate people on the 3D map.

We are happy that such an interesting and different project for us is ready. It is also possible that we are ready to do similar showcase projects again. Projects of this kind would be well suited for exhibitions or museums. We wish the Sorority Amicitia happy 100th anniversary. Vivat, crescat, floreat corporatio Amicitia in aeternum!

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