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2019 Year of the Pig Greetings 瑞豬 己亥 迎春

19/1/2019

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🍊🧧 🏮   Best Wishes for the  Year Of The Pig  🐖  2019 瑞豬 己亥 迎春     🏮​🧧🌱
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Ambigram 瑞豬   ⇔   己亥 迎春
See it displayed on Surface Pro's / interactively    

Chinese Characters 漢字 Ambigrams × Paper Cut ​紙雕

We designed the ambigram [瑞豬 ⇔   己亥 迎春]​ using Expresii's new quarter mode to celebrate the New Year of the Pig. T he year 2019 is marked as  [己亥]  in the lunar calendar.  [迎春] means welcoming spring;     [瑞豬] pig that brings luck.    Paper Cut is good for showing flip-type ambigrams since you can easily flip the paper to show different sides of the design.
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Ambigram paper cut carrying different messages read from both sides

No ordinary Lanterns 不一樣的 🏮 花燈 / 燈籠 🏮

It's common to display lanterns for  Lunar New Year.  We therefore try our hands on making a few lanterns featuring our ambigram greetings. We wanted to have a blend of tradition  & tech and also make the piece interactive so we made an attempt to embed    QR code  into the design  - not just any QR code but ones that can be read from both sides carrying different messages just like an ambigram!   To complete such a design, artist ability alone is not enough. 
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Lanterns with Ambigram Design. Reading from outside, from right to left:: [ 瑞 豬 ]

QR Code Ambigrams 也可翻轉的QR CODE

To make our two-sided QR code,  we  asked   Prof. Tim Leung   of HKUST to help with the number crunching.   Specifically, we need to write a computer program to untie the knot in producing two-sided QR Codes.   

​'​We have a UG student working on this problem. It's a good training for the student, which involves math and  (computer) coding​,' said Prof. Leung.  Our Dr. Nelson Chu, designer behind the ambigrams and lanterns, is an alumnus of HKUST and hopes to get current HKUST students inspired by interesting projects like this.  ’This is a typical real-world problem we need to solve everyday. In contrast, usually  clear instructions are given in a school assignment. But now one needs to be critical and be able to judge the correctness in the information gathered', said Dr. Chu.   'There may be more solution to one problem, and some hidden issues yet to be solved.'
抱有懷疑態度是做研究的基本;我們應保持好奇的心去探索  -- Prof. Tim Leung
The following are a few of the QR Codes we made:
And here comes the Moment of Truth - see if the two-sided QR Codes work in the following video:      (*゚ロ゚)
And if you are to try  out our 2-sided QR codes, note that some QR code scanners would only give the message  from one side because they would flip the input automatically.  We use this scanner  on Android, which can read the two messages.

STEAM Education

This lantern creation is a perfect example of STEAM ( STEM+Art) projects.   Apart from trying to get involved in multi-discipline activities, we strongly encourage students to learn computer programming regardless their majors. Being able to program a computer is empowering. You don't need to wait for someone to make a program suitable for your needs, you can just create one ​whenever creativity strikes!    Being able to make the first move and create something never existed before makes you a leader rather than a follower.

“近年,教育界提出新的「STEAM」框架,亦即在原本的「STEM」加入藝術(Art)的意涵,強調未來的學生應培養跨領域素養和能力。” (wikipedia)

STEM 是美國先提倡,然後香港、台灣等地跟隨。我們其實一直做的就是STEAM的工作:從一開始用 物理原理 模擬 毛筆,用 流體力學 做 數碼水墨,到現在開發 中文 翻轉字 (ambigramアンビグラム) 工具,全部都把藝術、文化、科技等結合,做出前所未有的新產品。我們非常歡迎各學校共同辦好STEAM 教育,讓我們的學生Future Ready,迎接未來的挑戰!東方文化有很多值得發展的地方,希望一天我們是領導者,而不是跟隨者。╭( ・ㅂ・)و )))​
職場上通常是藝術系的只會藝術,工科的只會工科;雇主如遇到有跨領域能力的員工應該興幸,因他們能幫你解決其他人解決不了的問題  --  Dr. Nelson Chu
P.S. We'll post making-of for the laterns in a later blog entry. Stay tuned. 

​'Flip' Icon made by Vaadin ​   from www.flaticon.com
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