DocumentCode
1284849
Title
Envisioning Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness)
Author
Lifeng Wang ; Xing Xing ; Wang, Chingyue
Author_Institution
British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Volume
20
Issue
1
fYear
2000
Firstpage
10
Lastpage
14
Abstract
The Summer Palace is one of the most popular tourist spots in Beijing, China. However, the name Summer Palace used to belong to Yuan Ming Yuan, one of the three most important architectural projects in Chinese history together with the Great Wall and the Dun Huang Caves. Translated into English, Yuan Ming Yuan means the Garden of Perfect Brightness. In October 1860, at the peak of the Second Opium War (also known as the Arrow War), the British and French joint army set Yuan Ming Yuan on fire. To bring Yuan Ming Yuan back to life, the authors are building a digital version using computer graphics
Keywords
computer graphics; history; China; Garden of Perfect Brightness; Yuan Ming Yuan; architectural projects; computer graphics; history; Brightness; Commercialization; Computer architecture; Computer graphics; History; Image databases; Image reconstruction; Painting; Rendering (computer graphics); Software tools;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0272-1716
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/38.814532
Filename
814532
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