Virtual Presentation and Animation of Qingming Festival by The Riverside

In this paper, we present a novel method to display a famous ancient Chinese painting for the purpose of cultural heritage preservation. The framework of multi-projector display wall based digital storytelling system is introduced. The aim of this system is to exhibit the ancient painting on a large display wall dynamically. Before being projected, the painting has to be repainted with very high resolution and segmented into many smaller tiles, so that it can be displayed on the large flat display wall. Additionally, in order to make this still painting attractive and living, the technique of digital storytelling is used. So a script called water transportation story is drafted to tell a story about the prosperous city. We extract the movable objects from the original painting and redraw them with three dimensional figures, and then the computer animation technology is used to animate them.