Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing

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Snapshots of the English version of the gamelike Digital Library Cave program, through which users can play the role of a time-traveling explorer of a millennium's twists and turns at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. English and French versions of Dunhuang's Digital Library Cave give 'tourists' new experience, Fang Aiqing reports. The potential of gaming technology facilitating cultural exchanges is increasing, exemplified in the English and French versions of a gamelike program, the Digital Library Cave, as it enables an expansive user base in taking a virtual tour of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. According to Tencent, the week following the release of the Digital Library Cave in April last year saw 14 million users visit the game via the WeChat mini-program, Cloud Museum of Dunhuang Caves.

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Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing

China Daily  

Snapshots of the English version of the gamelike Digital Library Cave program, through which users can play the role of a time-traveling explorer of a millennium's twists and turns at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. English and French versions of Dunhuang's Digital Library Cave give 'tourists' new experience, Fang Aiqing reports. The potential of gaming technology …

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes
8 months, 2 weeks ago

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes

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China's Dunhuang Academy and France's Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts have collaborated to create a digital resource library in the Library Cave of the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes. The Mogao Grottoes is a UNESCO World Heritage site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. The two institutes have recently signed a memorandum of cooperation and …

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes
8 months, 2 weeks ago

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes

China Daily  

China's Dunhuang Academy and France's Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts have collaborated to create a digital resource library in the Library Cave of the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes. The Mogao Grottoes is a UNESCO World Heritage site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. The two institutes have recently signed a memorandum of cooperation and …

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes
8 months, 2 weeks ago

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes

China Daily  

China's Dunhuang Academy and France's Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts have collaborated to create a digital resource library in the Library Cave of the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes. The Mogao Grottoes is a UNESCO World Heritage site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. The two institutes have recently signed a memorandum of cooperation and …

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time
9 months ago

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time

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Visitors peruse paintings and scripture scrolls at Dunhuang Art Gallery, which is operated by the academy, in Lanzhou, Gansu province, in April. This restoration directly prompted the introduction of the Chinese Cultural Relics and Historical Sites Protection Guidelines, providing a set of ideas and methods for the protection of China's cultural relics. On May 1, 2016, Digital Dunhuang was officially …

Digital caves bring history alive
1 year, 7 months ago

Digital caves bring history alive

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The Digital Library Cave project re-creates the 1,600-meter-long external cliff face of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. For more than a century, the Library Cave, or Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, in Northwest China's Gansu province, has been famous for its extraordinary collection of relics and a tale that has had its share of twists …

Digital caves bring history alive
1 year, 7 months ago

Digital caves bring history alive

China Daily  

The Digital Library Cave project re-creates the 1,600-meter-long external cliff face of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. For more than a century, the Library Cave, or Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, in Northwest China's Gansu province, has been famous for its extraordinary collection of relics and a tale that has had its share of twists …

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology
1 year, 8 months ago

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology

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Mogao Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in Dunhuang of Gansu province, on Oct 2, 2019. On Tuesday, an interactive digital platform called the "Digital Library Cave" was launched, featuring a virtual duplication of the Library Cave, employing digital technology to revive the relics for the benefit of both researchers and the general public. Jointly developed by the Dunhuang Academy …

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology
1 year, 8 months ago

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology

China Daily  

Mogao Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in Dunhuang of Gansu province, on Oct 2, 2019. On Tuesday, an interactive digital platform called the "Digital Library Cave" was launched, featuring a virtual duplication of the Library Cave, employing digital technology to revive the relics for the benefit of both researchers and the general public. Jointly developed by the Dunhuang Academy …

China launches interactive digital platform to display Dunhuang culture online
1 year, 8 months ago

China launches interactive digital platform to display Dunhuang culture online

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An interactive digital platform of a virtual duplication of the Library Cave in Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, is accessible to the public from Tuesday. Jointly developed by the Dunhuang Academy and leading Chinese tech firm Tencent, the platform reproduces the historical scenes of the Library Cave over one hundred years ago …

A deeper dive into Dunhuang
2 years, 1 month ago

A deeper dive into Dunhuang

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Veteran fresco restorer Li Bo and his protege Li Can examine a mural at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Despite being the world's largest treasure trove of Buddhist art, living conditions in Dunhuang, which sits in the Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, are harsher than in China's metropolises. Jointly produced by Tencent News and Dunhuang Academy, …

A deeper dive into Dunhuang
2 years, 1 month ago

A deeper dive into Dunhuang

China Daily  

Veteran fresco restorer Li Bo and his protege Li Can examine a mural at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Despite being the world's largest treasure trove of Buddhist art, living conditions in Dunhuang, which sits in the Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, are harsher than in China's metropolises. Jointly produced by Tencent News and Dunhuang Academy, …

Dunhuang's ancient beauty shared in digital form
2 years, 4 months ago

Dunhuang's ancient beauty shared in digital form

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A poster for the Dunhuang exhibition in Beijing. By the end of 2021, the "digital Dunhuang project" had completed the digital collection of 268 grottoes, the image processing of 164 grottoes, and the 3D reconstruction of 45 painted sculptures, 146 grottoes and seven large relics sites. In the process, it has not only applied various mature technologies to the digital …

Digital Dunhuang Exhibition
3 years, 7 months ago

Digital Dunhuang Exhibition

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Renowned as a World Heritage Site in Northwest China’s Gansu province, the Mogao Caves deserves to be called a holy land of Buddhist art as the home of the largest scale and the richest Buddhist cultural content found in the world. An integration of cave architecture, painted sculpture and murals, it is recognized by both Eastern and Western scholars as …

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