Focusing on the shift from the printed book to the electronic text/digital skin, each page of the MMB makes accessible through interactive means a unique aspect of the diverse history of human communication. The MMB allows the interactive visitor free exploration of various dimensions of both centuries.

The navigation and the interaction with the MMB in the CAVE® is often surprising, designed to draw the user from the Renaissance to the Information Age. Exploring different modes of communication and demonstrating the differences between each era’s combinations of mathematics, innovation, art, and cutting edge technology in communications, the MMB is a metaphor for means of communication through time and space integrated into one unique environment.

The MMB application is a large-scale environment. Each component of the environment covers a large virtual space, using hundreds of megabytes for models, texture-maps, and audio clips to link multiple scenes. The final, complete environment, or world, contains 150 modeled objects, 120 recorded sounds, and many additional textures and other files, for a total of 250 gigabytes of data.

Figure 1. MMB:

Figure 2. MMB: