Art Gallery

Interactive virtual art gallery: zoomable historical timeline with era click-to-zoom, major event markers (vertical guides into the movement flow), branching art-movement streams (click a movement name to enter its 3D movement gallery — photorealistic period interiors with painted walls, stone, and wood textures; chronological wings with up to ~55 works each, side-wall windows, wing navigator), one 3D hall per artist (parquet floor, movement-tinted walls, black/gold frames by review status, corridor layout for large catalogs, museum-style exit doors, golden influence lamps, canvas placeholders for missing works, influence-linked exits), painting detail with art-history annotations, prev/next catalog browsing and fullscreen lightbox, debug-mode image audit on painting detail and artist bio (Checked / Fix it / More / Clear / Upload), Checkup page, preserved gallery camera on return, and Wikipedia-sourced artist biographies.

Documentation

Document	Purpose
Documentation/basics.md	Architecture, layout, user flow
Documentation/setup.md	Install, env, npm scripts
Documentation/DB_structure.md	PostgreSQL tables
Documentation/API.md	REST endpoints
Documentation/data-and-images.md	Catalog, bios, seeding, image pipeline

Stack

• Backend: Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL
• Frontend: React, Vite, Three.js (@react-three/fiber, @react-three/drei)

Setup

1. Copy .env.example to .env and set database credentials.

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install
   cd client && npm install && cd ..
   

3. Apply database schema (requires PostgreSQL superuser for first-time setup):

   npm run migrate
   npm run seed
   

4. Enrich the catalog (recommended after seed):

   npm run fetch-artist-bios    # Wikipedia biographies for all artists
   npm run expand-catalog       # add famous works for artists with thin catalogs
   npm run update-influences    # art-history lineage links between paintings
   npm run migrate:artist-palette   # optional: JSONB column for PainterPalette enrichment
   npm run import-painter-palette   # optional: metadata + influence links from Inputs/PainterPalette.csv
   npm run migrate:checkup-flags # review/fixed flags for Checkup + debug mode (paintings)
   npm run migrate:artist-checkup-flags # same flags for artist portraits (bio debug)
   npm run migrate:painting-annotations # art-history notes on painting detail
   npm run update-painting-annotations  # load curated notes (+ optional --wikipedia)
   npm run fetch-images -- --limit=50         # random batch of missing images (10s per work)
   npm run fetch-images -- --artist="Claude Monet"   # one artist in catalog order
   

5. Build the client and start the server:

   npm run start:prod
   

   Production URLs:

   • Public: http://gallery.mysuperlab.netcraze.pro (via reverse proxy)
   • LAN: http://192.168.10.70:3520

   See Documentation/setup.md for nginx/systemd configs in deploy/.

Development

Run API and Vite dev server separately:

npm run dev:server   # API — PORT from .env (3520 or 3001)
npm run dev:client   # http://localhost:5173 (proxies /api and /images)