The night is like ink, soaking in the northwest corner tower of the Palace Museum in the suburbs of Beijing. The evening breeze carried the coolness of late autumn and passed through the cornices of red walls and yellow tiles, but it could not blow away the bright lights in the cultural relics digitization laboratory.
Xi Feizi took off his white gloves stained with fine dust, tapped his fingertips on the touch screen, and the Warring States jade cong in the three-dimensional modeling software instantly rotated. On the turquoise jade material, the complex animal facial patterns were disassembled into countless data points. Her optimized algorithm accurately restored the depth of each scratch and every transition of color. Even the cracks inside the jade material that were difficult to distinguish with the naked eye were clearly presented with a translucent light and shadow effect.
