Here’s one way to bring a bit of culture to yourAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsisland.
The Getty Museum has releasedan online toolthat lets you turn classic works of art by the likes of Rembrandt andVan Gogh into QR codes you may upload into your game.
The new Art Generator allows you to search through any of the Getty’s open-access images to find the right image for your house — including Van Gogh’sIrisesand Paul Cézanne’sStill Life with Blue Pot— and crop it to your liking.
Once you’ve selected an image, the generator will pixelate the art down to fit inAnimal Crossing‘s custom design space and spit out a QR code you can download using the NookLink app.
The Art Generator isn’t limited to just Getty’s collection either thanks to an option that lets you plug in IIIF data — an image framework used by many art institutions to organize their archives. Open-access works provided by other museums can be transformed and uploaded into the game using the same tool.
Getty warned that you should check with a museum or gallery’s terms of use before using their data and uploading it.
David Newbury, a software architect at the arts organization, told Digital Trends the generator was the brainchild of Getty software engineer — and Animal Crossing fan — Selina Chang-Yi Zawacki.
“It was one of those ideas that was good enough that we dropped everything and put together a team to make it happen,” Newbury said.
A five-person crew used the open-source Animal Crossing Pattern Tool to build the feature, which Newbury hopes will “bring a little joy” to people stuck at home.
“What we want to do with our art is let people get to it from where they are, not necessarily from where we are,” he told Digital Trends.
If you’re looking for moreAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsthings to do, follow along with a tour of the in-game museum withthe help of a real aquariumor check out our guides tocatch the latest fishormake bells fast.
