By Steve Bush 4th October 2022
A priceless Korean medical encyclopaedia, first published in 1613, is now available for the public to interact with virtually the National Library of Korea
Compiled by royal physician Heo Jun, the originals are locked away for safe keeping, but a high-resolution scan has been animated on a novel display surface by Seoul-based company Ubidus.
“Many companies have developed digital books using LCDs over the years, but we wanted to create something more realistic,” said Ubidus team leader Baek Jin Su. “Our idea was to leverage a real large-scale book whereby users could physically turn the pages to view content, as well as interact with the text to generate related animations.”
The display surface is a real book whose pages can be turned, onto which high-resolution images and animations are projected from the top.
Under the marble table on which the book sits is a large projected capacitance touch panel from Tyne & Wear based Zytronic, operated by its own ZXY500 noise-rejecting touch controller which can detect hands as they turn pages through the marble and the thick book.
Korean company Dream Team Harmony was the link, as it is a long-standing Zytronic’s partner and was called in to help Ubidus after they had worked together on other novel exhibits.
The three of them also worked on an interactive information table in the same room at the National Library exhibition (right).
Here is a video of the book in action, and here is one of the information table
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