Scrolling Scrolls by Zora Wan

When observing Smithsonian artifacts, I found that the Chinese paintings from Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have topic tags in their API. To visualize the relationship between images and topics and provide an online exhibition experience is the primary goal of this project.The dataset is about 200 images and its topics and date information. The project explored topics of Chinese painting through different interactions on desktop and mobile. On the desktop, users can navigate between paintings and topics to see their correlation. Users can view all the paintings in a timeline by simple scrolling behavior. The timeline is listed with the Chinese dynasties so users can reference it as a time point. On the mobile version, users could scroll through all the paintings like on the desktop with an immersive full-screen experience. Details such as title, topics, and date will also show up and be updated when scrolling. Moreover, a timeline and a thumbnail make a visualized reference will also provide a time point in the history and the position in the actual length of the total images. Overall, by exploring this project, users will get a sense of the evolution of Chinese paintings to observe the difference in painting technic, color usages, topics through different time points.