Description: David Beeler is an engineer with 11+ years of experience in a variety of fields; this is his profile.
Welcome to the new www.DavidABeeler.com! I have been meaning to update this website and expand its capability to be more useful and meaningful. From 2019-2023, the website was built with GatsbyJS and hosted on Netlify. Interestingly enough, Netlify acquired GatsbyJS to "accelerate adoption of composable web architecture," which continues the (positive) march towards microservices. Typically, behemoth architectures are undesirable; due to the extreme interconnectivity of all pieces, they are harder to develo
As an example of the technology and a peek of what I could create within a short time frame, I set out to incorporate the DeGrazia Madonna, a variety of Mother Mary statues, and the Erma Bombeck Rose Gallery exhibit from 2022 into a virtual reality (VR) experience on the Quest. As a simple art exhibit, I added UI panels for each of the statues and wall clings to describe the piece and recorded voice-over audio. The Rose Gallery was created in Blender, the wall clings were photographed and turned into usable
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