No. 4 · Interactive class · Digital storytelling
A Thousand Years in a Scroll
Unroll one scroll, walk through a thousand years
Classroom demo · LiveOpen A Thousand Years in a Scroll
WhyWhy I made it
How a scroll is opened, read and stored is hard to remember from a lecture alone
I wanted to turn that knowledge into a class you do with your hands
WhatWhat it became
A 26-minute interactive class for beginners, where eight acts lead into small games for opening, reading, labelling and shelving scrolls
The 3D scroll can be dragged and turned, with a flat fallback when 3D is unavailable
Neither the art scenes nor the teaching categories pretend to be historical objects
RoleMy part
Made solo: from the idea, research and design to building and launching, I did all of it myself with AI
ToolsTech and media
HTML · CSS · JavaScript · Raw WebGL · Keyboard and touch
NowCurrent status
Classroom demo · Live
Hosted on a free instance
The first visit after a while may take about a minute
In this series · Scroll series
Ink WalkRuns locally
Starting from a real hand scroll, a paper-and-ink valley in 3D that you can walk into and look around in the browser
One Feast, a Thousand YearsRuns locally
A 2D interactive site on The Night Revels of Han Xizai: unroll, travel to Jinling, enter the Han house, then step into the five scenes of the feast
Into the PaintingFinished film
The five scenes of The Night Revels of Han Xizai, acted out in 3D: arrival, into the scroll, music, dance and flutes