"Along the River During the Ch'i-ming Festival" Exploring System

Team member:Ying-Ruei Chen

This was the project that we collaborated with National Palace Museum.

'Along the River During the Ch'i-ming Festival' is one of the masterpieces in Chinese culture, and because of its lengthy size: 35.6 x 1152.8 cm, it is not easy for someone to browse. National Palace Museum would like to have an convenient way to exhibit it so that more people could enjoy this exquisite painting.

i-m-Top

Interactive Multi-resolution Tabletop (imTop) is a tangible interface that allows user to interact with their fingers directly.  Different from Microsoft Surface, i-m-Top has two resolutions, with high resolution in center and low resolution in other area.

These are the screen shots that run on the simulator. The right hand image with the hole in the middle is the overall big-picture view.  The left hand image is the magnified part of the hole from the right hand image.

Initially, the picture would flow slowly on the screen, and there is a blue disc placed at the bottom-right corner.

Once the user touches the disc, it would move to the center and expand to five categories.

Once a category is chosen, a group of cards (which carries the images and information corresponding to that category) is displayed.  The cards could be scaled, rotated, or moved by finger gestures.

If the user selects one of the cards, the painting would scroll to the position of that card, and user could flip the card to read what is going on in that spot.

Reference:
Video About imTop


Introduction of 'Along the River During the Ch'i-ming Festival'
National Palace Museum