# Inception Space

> A browser museum in deep space, made by Lucas Academy, where children's
> paintings are the walls of the rooms. Visitors move without gravity along
> an endless glass corridor and step through portals into rooms whose
> surfaces are living, animated paintings.

- Site: https://is.lucasacademy.org/
- Organisation: Lucas Academy, https://lucasacademy.org/
- Languages: English and Chinese
- Privacy: no student names, photographs or class information are published.

## Rooms

### The L-City

an L-shaped city with two 30 by 10 metre streets. All 0 of its surfaces — the walls, the floor and the ceiling — are paintings. 26 pieces stand inside it, human-scale next to a visitor a sixth of that size.

Page: https://is.lucasacademy.org/rooms/matthew-l-city.html

### Mr Yancy's Class Room

a black cube gallery 32 by 32 metres and 8 metres high. All 9 of its surfaces — the walls, the floor and the ceiling — are paintings, 3 of them living. 4 pieces stand inside it, human-scale next to a visitor a sixth of that size.

Page: https://is.lucasacademy.org/rooms/mr-yancys-class-room.html

### Newton + the Moon

an open yard 22 by 22 metres with no walls or ceiling — the museum's own starfield is its sky. All 0 of its surfaces — the walls, the floor and the ceiling — are paintings. Inside runs "Newton + the Moon", a guided story in 3 beats: the visitor plays the scientist while a small AI companion does the fast reasoning, and together they find out why a correct calculation still disagreed with the sky.

Page: https://is.lucasacademy.org/rooms/newton-moon-room.html

### Van Gogh House

a hall 16 by 16 metres and 8 metres high. All 6 of its surfaces — the walls, the floor and the ceiling — are paintings. 4 pieces stand inside it, human-scale next to a visitor a sixth of that size.

Page: https://is.lucasacademy.org/rooms/room-a.html

### The Sky

an open cylinder 16 metres across, rising 24 metres and extending 24 metres below its removable floor. Its floor is a living painting; nothing is painted overhead. 12 pieces stand inside it, human-scale next to a visitor a sixth of that size.

Page: https://is.lucasacademy.org/rooms/room-b.html

### Journey of Art

Journey of Art, a 68 by 66 metre rectangular gallery of connected bent wall groups, entered from the west and left through the east, with one central rest and sculpture zone. All 0 of its surfaces — the walls, the floor and the ceiling — are paintings. 95 pieces stand inside it, human-scale next to a visitor a sixth of that size.

Page: https://is.lucasacademy.org/rooms/the-art-of-progression.html

### The Manifold

The Manifold, an open zero-gravity field 240 by 240 metres and 120 metres high. All 0 of its surfaces — the walls, the floor and the ceiling — are paintings.

Page: https://is.lucasacademy.org/rooms/the-manifold.html

## How it works

The museum runs in a WebGL canvas, so the pages above are the readable
twin of what a visitor sees. Paintings are published as `.lpr` packages:
declarative data — marks, masks, behaviours and parameters — that carry no
executable brush code. See https://is.lucasacademy.org/ to enter.

## Project documentation

The project's own working documents, rendered at stable URLs. Each page
also exists as raw Markdown at the same path with `.md` — read those to
quote or to plan work on the museum.

- Inception Space UI: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/overview.md — What Inception Space is, how to run it, and where everything lives.
- Inception Space：产品、课程与技术蓝图: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/vision.md — The classroom idea the museum grew from: a 3D world whose walls are student art.
- Inception Space — Deep-Space Museum Product Direction: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/direction.md — The deep-space museum: endless corridor, zero gravity, per-room streaming, multiplayer presence.
- Lucas Academy Inception Space: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/execution-plan.md — The bilingual source of truth: phases, locked decisions, roadmap and the audit log.
- .lpr — Lucas Painting Runtime, version 1: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/lpr-format.md — How a child's .lpp painting compiles into declarative, executable-code-free room art.
- Finding and fixing museum performance problems: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/performance.md — Why texture upload — not paint time — is the museum's real cost, and the dials that govern it.
- The Avatar Paint Studio: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/avatar-studio.md — Color your explorer's real 3D body; paintings travel by content id, never over the socket.
- The object library: ownership, R2, and how an object gets in: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/object-library.md — Who owns a 3D object, where its bytes live, and what an export has to satisfy.
- The room's door and the room's transit chamber: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/room-door-and-transit.md — What a room owner owns beyond the walls, and the size and colour a door is painted to.
- CC execution brief: museum panel and exhibition chapter boundary: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/exhibition-ux-batch.md — The CC-ready brief for a 95% museum panel and a real Van Gogh-to-student chapter boundary.
- Future directions: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/spatial-gallery-authoring.md — A child-designed branching-gallery workflow with a bounded declarative exchange format — and the other ideas that are recorded but not started.
- Open work: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/open-work.md — Everything started and not finished, gathered out of a dozen plans into one list you could pick up from.
- Van Gogh guided demo narration and subtitles — English: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/van-gogh-demo-narration-en.md — The current guided-demo transcript and the proposed friendship, love and eternity opening.
- 梵高导览 Demo 配音与字幕脚本 — 中文: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/van-gogh-demo-narration-zh.md — 当前英文导览脚本的中文审阅版，以及等待书信原文确认的展览破题。
- 爱是永恒 · 六节课案 / Love Is What Lasts — six lessons: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/van-gogh-love-lessons.md — 公开课案：一个 45 分钟骨架，六节课，主题爱是永恒。A public teaching plan: six bilingual lessons on love and eternity.
- Museum ambience, reader sounds, and automatic doors: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/museum-sound-and-doors.md — Subtle corridor sound, silent rooms, a menu switch, and local automatic door behavior.
- Discovery: search engines and AI engines as first-class audiences: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/discovery.md — Why every space needs a text twin, and the privacy rules those pages obey.
- ADR-0002：Web 原生 3D 世界壳 + Canvas 2D 作品运行时: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/adr-0002-web-native-3d.md — Why the museum runs in the browser instead of a game launcher.
- ADR-0003：引擎对照闸门与 .lpr 标准运行时: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/adr-0003-engine-bakeoff.md — The measured Three.js/Babylon.js comparison and the case for a compiled artwork format.
- ADR-0004: Lucas Account — one shared login service: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/adr-0004-lucas-account.md — One shared email-code sign-in service; apps stay stateless and verify tokens.
- ADR-0005: Where museum data lives: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/adr-0005-data-and-hosting.md — One Node service for API + WebSocket, Postgres for documents, object storage for art.
- ADR-0006: Three.js is the museum's engine: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/adr-0006-engine-three.md — The evidence-backed close of the bake-off.
- ADR-0007: One database for Inception Space — worlds, rooms, global users: https://is.lucasacademy.org/docs/adr-0007-one-database.md — Inception Space holds many worlds, a world holds many rooms, and a user is global.

## What the museum gives you to read

- The Starry Night: Where the Question Begins (The Van Gogh House): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/van-gogh-starry-night.html — The painting the course opens on, and the question it asks about what a night sky is for.
- Painting the People He Loved (The Van Gogh House): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/van-gogh-people-he-loved.html — The postman and the poet: why Van Gogh painted the people around him the way he did.
- Where the Forever Lives (The Van Gogh House): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/van-gogh-forever-lives.html — The sower, the river and the raising: the paintings where Van Gogh looked for what lasts.
- His Father's Bible, and a Small Worn Book (The Van Gogh House): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/van-gogh-fathers-bible.html — One still life, two books, and an argument between a father and a son.
- Two Friends, One Café (The Van Gogh House): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/van-gogh-two-friends.html — Van Gogh and Gauguin painted the same café. Standing between the two is the whole lesson.
- The Violet That Time Hid (The Van Gogh House): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/van-gogh-violet-time-hid.html — How conservation science reads a colour that has already faded, and what it can honestly claim.
- Pixel Science: Tiny Pieces, Big Ideas (Mr Yancy's Class Room): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/pixel-science.html — Start here: the room's own introduction to how very small pieces add up to a picture.
- Pixels: From Dots to Form (Mr Yancy's Class Room): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/pixels-from-dots-to-form.html — Where a shape comes from when all you have is dots on a grid.
- From Bits to Meaning (Mr Yancy's Class Room): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/from-bits-to-meaning.html — A bit holds one of two states. Follow those choices up into numbers, letters, pictures and sound.
- Three Games (Mr Yancy's Class Room): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/three-games.html — Three small games that each teach one idea about information.
- P2: Faith, Doubt, Dread (Journey of Art): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/p2-faith-doubt-dread.html — Eunice's process book on dread, doubt as a bridge, rescue, and peace inside a storm — the page every one of the ten P2 works opens.
- P3: Supreme — Love in 80 Parts (Journey of Art): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/p3-supreme-love-in-80-parts.html — The four final music-responsive works first, followed by their listening excerpts, translation method, process and eighty-part word score.
- Before Supreme: Shape, Cut, Reassemble (Journey of Art): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/p1-ex01-ex02.html — Four shapes, twenty-four studies and two cut-paper rebuilds presented as the material preparation for Supreme.
- Lucas and Jesus — From Underdrawing to Finished Painting (Journey of Art): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/lucas-jesus-underdrawing-to-painting.html — Three documentary photographs of one painting partway through: a drawing, a first pass of colour, and a near-finished surface.
- Dream (Journey of Art): https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/dream.html — Two early paintings beside their finished museum versions, with a short note about each style.
- Reader Copy for Ten-Year-Olds: https://is.lucasacademy.org/content/reader-copy-for-ten-year-olds.html — bilingual editorial review of the museum labels.