Backgammon gameboard
Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on table boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of table games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Persia.
Backgammon was a popular game in Flanders in the 17th century, so chances are high it was played in the Swan Inn in Ename in 1665. The scene in the Ee…
Creator
- visualdimension
Subject
- gameboard
- Furniture & Home
- backgammon
- game
- Cultural Heritage & History
- 17th-century
- backgammon sets
- game equipment
- board games (game sets)
- Game
- Board game
Type of item
- 3D
Creator
- visualdimension
Subject
- gameboard
- Furniture & Home
- backgammon
- game
- Cultural Heritage & History
- 17th-century
- backgammon sets
- game equipment
- board games (game sets)
- Game
- Board game
Type of item
- 3D
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Rights
- Visual Dimension bvba
Creation date
- 2023
- 2023
Temporal
- 1665
- 17th century CE
- 1665
Places
- Ename
Provenance
- The 3D model has been created in Blender based on multiple images from the Rijksmuseum and articles on the backgammon game. This model has been integrated into an interactive virtual world, based on the Unity3D platform, depicting the abbey village of Ename, in the year 1665. This VR application was shown in the Ename Museum until the end of 2023 when the museum closed.; Animations; Polygonal modelling; Texture mapping; Virtual reconstruction
Identifier
- share3d:1446
- share3d:1446
Format
- glTF
Language
- English
- en
Is part of
- Share3D
- Belgium
Relations
- https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/eename-1665/
- https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/BK-NM-1010-276
Year
- 1665
- 2023
Providing country
- Belgium
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2024-02-22T11:54:00.907Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-12-09T11:24:27.667Z