Group member Songyan Zhao, Yixing Song, Zhihan Yang Introduction Su Shi (1037-1101) is arguably the most famous poet in China. He had an adventurous life; he dwelled in several cities with very different humanistic and geographical characteristics. These factors had strong influences on his work, hence the importance to understand them. We believe that an interactive […]
Author: Zhihan Yang Introduction Two weeks ago, I read about a tool that can extract the main colors from (photos of) paintings. This tool uses the k-means algorithm to group pixels into a user-specified number of major colors. A painting can easily contain millions of different colors; this tool reduces this number into a manageable […]
I an enthusiast of Chinese history. Since I’m haven’t taken any history lessons in Carleton, I see this final project as an opportunity to re-explore my high school interest. I hope I can use the tools I’ve learnt in this course to display poet Su Shi’s life stories in a much more vivid way than […]
My job is to find appropriate images of buildings that are 1) relevant to Su Shi’s life and/or poems 2) high-quality and model-able. At this moment, I am almost done with modeling Huxin Pavilion of West Lake, Hangzhou, China. Huxin Pavilion is a small pavilion in the middle of West Lake, one of the most […]
Group name: from Chinese Architecture Group to Poet Su Shi Life Group Group members: Zhihan Yang, Yixin Song, Songyan Zhao Links to our own blog posts: Zhihan: http://medhieval.com/classes/hh2020/week-9-project-preparation/w8-zhihans-contribution/ Songyan: http://medhieval.com/classes/hh2020/uncategorized/the-life-of-chinese-poet-sushi-silas-zhaos-contribution/ Yixin: http://medhieval.com/classes/hh2020/week-9-project-preparation/w8-progress-updates/ Project details Important note: After talking to Austin, we felt like our project was missing “a strong narrative, storytelling element” as mentioned by […]
My mid-term exam analyzed Project Gutenberg’s Mark Twain’s Speeches and organized the title and keywords of each speech along a timeline made using Timeline JS. Here’s a link to it: https://dh.zhihanyang.net/.
I can’t find a way to visually embed my map app in WordPress, so here’s the link to it: https://carleton.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Editor/index.html?appid=62c1fdfe9eba4492bda5a3d48146a3bc. My web app displays the geographical distribution of squirrels in New York’s central park. This is not accurate because some squirrels might be captured multiple times during the data collection process and their population may […]
I have been dreaming about having a site of my own for a long time, but I didn’t try to set it up because I thought I might require a lot of expertise. Today, I just set up my first site by following in the instructions given in this course – I’m thrilled. Let me […]
I think everyone should learn to code, regardless of whether you are studying the computer sciences or the humanities. This blog is a direct response to Evan Donahue’s blog A “Hello World” Apart (why humanities students should NOT learn to program). I don’t agree with what he said because of his definition of engagement. In […]
I discovered this really cool digital humanities project called FabricSpace. I found it as a blog post / article on the Digital Humanities page of Yale University library. Here’s a link to it: http://dh.library.yale.edu/projects/vogue/fabricspace/. The main goal of this project is to generate clusters of fabrics based on each fabric’s context of appearance in Vogue […]
[People nowadays believe that] work that needed to be done day after day was meaningless, and that only creating new things was a worthwhile endeavor. Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not a Maker,” The Atlantic, January 23, 2015. Another Ctrl + Enter. It was the hundredth time I ran the same code snippet. And it was […]
SketchUp is surprisingly easy and intuitive to use. I didn’t experience much frustration from using it the first time. Simple yet powerful 3D-modeling tools like SketchUp can help history students reconstruct historical buildings from photographs, which may bring them deeper insights into relevant historical events. A time-saving tip that I would like to share: use […]
