The Cyclorama Móvil project renews the way of viewing a pictorial work with webGL software and technology

Exploring beyond what can be seen within the frame of a painting is the objective of the artistic project Cyclorama Móvil, in which the tradition of panoramic painting is combined with digital painting, software programming and motion detection technology, to create “a pictorial telepresence experience”.

Mobile Cyclorama is an artistic and technological project that the artist Raúl Moyado Sandoval is currently carrying out in Mexico, consisting of creating “an experience of pictorial tele-presence to renew the way of viewing a pictorial work”, in which the legacy of panoramic painting is combined with software programming and motion detection technologies to create a series of interactive panoramas where the viewer can rotate the point of view and contemplate the work from different angles.

This combination of art and technology allows us to create an immersive experience for the viewer., thanks to the representation of monumental landscapes painted on constructions called cycloramas.

To achieve, Moyado Sandoval uses the code that Google provides in its Street View service, adapted to the Cyclorama Móvil project on the Internet, to capture images and build a panoramic model of multiple distorted perspectives to create an optical illusion from different angles created with JavaScrip programming software, HTML5 and webGL technology to view the work in an interactive and panoramic way.

Besides, This artist and programmer also takes advantage of the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors that the iPad tablet incorporates so that the point of view of the painting (through previously defined drawings and precise spatial distortions) be changed according to the orientation of this device, which allows you to view the work from different angles and create new experiences through the web in the field of painting, which this artist defines as 'Metapanoramas'.