A free 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum built with Three.js and WebGPU
micstradev · hn · 2026-10-14
Nonprofit Museum of Ages has opened a free digital Leonardo da Vinci museum: a 17-stop virtual tour with near-real-size paintings, 15 of his machines rebuilt in code, 29 anatomy sheets, and 207 manuscript pages (131 translated), plus a reconstruction of his last house in Amboise.
Everything is built with Three.js, running on WebGPU with a WebGL2 fallback; textures come from CC0 photo scans and free 3D models. Each stop is graded as documented, reconstructed, conjectural, or not known, with sources shown in detail. The team pre-rendered the walk so it runs on older phones, and the site supports seven languages. Code is AGPL-3.0, texts and images CC BY-SA 4.0.
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