Google Images is a vast trove of delightful
memes that awaken our imagination.
On our current focus of stagecraft, we need
dioramas in our vocabulary at this point, and this month,
halloween dioramas. Most dioramas are shoe-box sized, and contain a miniature scene, emotionally or by significance engaging. They sometimes use
forced perspective to trick the eye into perceiving 3-d scenery, but with a large lens or mirror the focus of the viewer's eye can truly be infinity of nature (and slightly beyond).
Dioramas are physical constructs but they can also be virtual. This company sells very high resolution art with themes that you could have printed poster-size for your puppet theater use, at your local copy-shop;
this is one of their many for Halloween. Renderosity has reasonable prices (My profit in making recommendations is satisfaction of sharing) on
3-D images for programs such as Poser. If you're a student, they have a great discount for you.
Images made in 3-D by Poser can be readily imported into DarkBasic programmed virtual interactive realities. There are other programs similar to Poser available for 3-D. They all have imperfect but good compatability between formats. There are evolving some open-source (free) 3-D programs as well.
Some have put lights in dioramas. I suggest we add changes, light, motion, sound, sensors, and interaction, plus some of our robotic programming and puppets.