Creator’s post and project documentation · Published 2026-09-13
Astra helps turn family photos into a virtual visit home
A family photograph holds one view. A small 3D website offers another way to revisit it: move between viewpoints and listen to the bamboo in the wind.
01THE STORY
Starting with a family home
On September 13, creator dirstart shared Bamboo Old House on V2EX. They describe using older photographs and Astra to recreate their grandmother’s home in Longyan, Fujian, and have published the website and source. The author recalls living there as a child; the village later relocated and the old home became difficult to visit.
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A scene that changes with light and weather
The Three.js project presents bamboo, wooden corridors and rooms in a browser. Its current README describes a guided route, selected indoor and outdoor viewpoints, 360-degree viewing, day-to-night settings, weather and natural sounds. Visitors can change the view of the house or listen to rain in the bamboo, extending the experience beyond a single photograph.
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Making the visit run smoothly
Several visitors reported slow loading, heat or stuttering. The author has posted performance updates and acknowledged a reader contribution. The current README records rendering changes; making a scene comfortable to visit across devices remains part of the creative work. Use “Visit Bamboo Old House” in the sources to open the website, or explore its construction in the public repository.
Background and context
A creator used old family photos and Astra to build a 3D bamboo-house website, with different viewpoints, times of day and weather. The source is public, and performance work continues.
Personal photographs become a place to revisit and share, while the project shows the work still needed to make a generated scene usable.
The creation process is a creator self-report, not proof of automatic reconstruction accuracy. Readers reported slowdowns; BitShovel has not benchmarked performance.
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Looking back over time
02TIMELINE
Looking back over time
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Collection and archive details
Record location: live register
First discovered: 2026-09-13; added to the library: 2026-09-13 (Beijing time).
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Sources and references
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Sources and references
- Read the originalSourceCreator’s post and project documentation
- Bamboo Old House: project README at a pinned revisionReference
- Visit Bamboo Old HouseReference
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