From a URL to a 3D gallery

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Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a project I’ve been building with three.js: MyGallery3D.

The idea is to turn a normal online shop or artist portfolio into a walkable 3D gallery that runs directly in the browser. Instead of showing artwork or products only as a flat grid, the user can generate a gallery space and share it as a simple link.

The goal is not to replace existing platforms like Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, Wix, or Squarespace. The idea is more to create a 3D presentation layer on top of what creators and sellers already have.

A few things the project does:

  • Creates walkable browser-based 3D gallery spaces within a minute

  • Lets users customise the gallery

  • Lets visitors explore on desktop and mobile

  • Connects back to the seller’s existing store/checkout

  • Supports uploaded images or existing store/portfolio content

  • Includes AR preview on mobile for artwork

  • Uses optimized 3D spaces designed to load quickly in the browser

I also built an experimental project called Neverending Museum, which uses the same broader idea in a more playful way: turning topics and online information into an endless walkable museum experience (using Wikipedia).

Links:

MyGallery3D: https://mygallery3d.com
Neverending Museum: Neverending Museum: Make a 3D Virtual Museum of Any Topic

I would love feedback from the three.js community :slight_smile:

This has been a big learning process, especially around optimization, baked lighting, mobile constraints, and making a 3D experience feel simple enough for regular website visitors.

Happy to answer any technical questions, and I’d really appreciate any feedback.

Jonathan

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Well done.

Your webpage says AI is involved. This seems like a fairly simple project for which AI is not required. Also, many artists hate AI. So that might not be a selling point.

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Thank you for the feedback!

the ai isn’t creating the gallery, it is just here to do the boring part, placing all the pieces accurately, adding the descriptions etc.. all this can then be personalized by the artist.

It probably seems fairly simple for you, but I can assure you that most of artist have no idea on how to build a 3D gallery, and what would usually take weeks (even month), can now be made within a minute with this tool :slight_smile:

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If you have not done so, you might describe the exact role that AI is playing in creating these exhibits. Otherwise, artists might be concerned that the AI in this program is going to steal their artwork. Will it preserve their copyright information? You should also insure artists that you are not claiming a copyright on any original arrangements of the artists work created by the program - or that any such copyright is assigned to the artist.

This is all kind of technical. But I think that, in the age of AI, these are the kinds of things artists worry about.

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Thanks Phil, fair points.

To me it feels clear that the AI is basically just “hanging the art on the wall”, it places the pieces and drafts descriptions, that’s it. It doesn’t create the gallery, doesn’t touch or learn from the artwork in any way, and artists keep full rights to everything, including the arrangements.

But you’re probably right that what’s obvious to me isn’t obvious to a visitor landing on the site. I’ll make this more explicit on the page. Thanks for taking the time to spell it out!

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