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Morphosis of Castiglione's Hundred Horses

• City University of Hong Kong
• 2016
• Artefact Inspiration: One Hundred Horses, Giuseppe Castiglione, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

Guiseppe Castiglione's One Hundred Horses (1728) silk handscroll portrays 100 horses in a variety of coat colors and with distinctive markings. This installation provides a digital animation of these equine coat textures, and projection maps them onto a white life-size horse sculpture, thereby creating the visual illusion of a morphosis across all the horses in Castglione's painting.

The Universal World of Ferdinand Verbiest

• National Palace Museum
• 2018
• Artefact Inspiration: The Universal Map of the World (Kunyu Quantu) & the Illustrated Explanation of the World, developed by Ferdinand Verbiest, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

The Universal World of Ferdinand Verbiest is a novel media installation that was inspired by the Universal Map of the World (Kunyu Quantu) and the Illustrated Explanation of the World, both by Ferdinand Verbiest, in the National Palace Museum collections. The installation has adopted a special map projection method that transforms the Universal Map of the World into an actual globe, which is then combined with three-dimensional augmented reality technology to link the real sphere and virtual map world via mobile devices. Approximately four hundred years ago, Ferdinand Verbiest made use of hand-drawn maps to assist the Emperor Kangxi in understanding the structure of the world. Now, making use of augmented reality, we seek to reproduce the same enlightening experience.

Illustrated Album of Sea Miscellany

• Nie Huang, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
• Album leaf, ink and colors on paper, 30.4cm (H) x 68cm (W)
• Facsimile

Illustrated Album of Sea Miscellany has four albums and the fourth album is in the National Palace Museum. This album depicts such marine life as horseshoe crabs, snails, crabs and shrimp. With no seal or signature of the artist, each painting has a title and explanation of praise in regular script.

The preface to the first album states that in the summer of 1698, Nie Huang travelled to Fujian and visited coastal areas. Nie, a native of Qiantang (modern Hangzhou, Zhejiang), travelled all over the land for nearly 20 years. He later gathered illustrations of the many sea creatures he had seen and heard of in Illustrated Album of Sea Miscellany.

CT scans of a cat and a dog

• City University of Hong Kong
• 2018

Computer-processed combinations of many X-ray measurements (CT scans) produce cross-sectional images or virtual "slices" of a dog and cat, allowing the user to peer into the interiors of these animals' bodies. In this exhibit these imaged segments are presented in sculptural form as well as virtual 3D models that viewers can interactively examine.