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Original award wording
Education — 1st Place
Project profile
Mechanica
An interactive digital museum of ancient Chinese machinery, with sources attached to its reconstructions.
Mechanica is a bilingual interactive museum of ancient Chinese machinery. Visitors choose a reconstruction, add water or trigger motion, take mechanisms apart and inspect dimensions alongside text sources and inferred parts. Some machines offer more than one plausible reconstruction.
Versioned JSON is described as storing parameters and references, with deterministic state simulation driving motion. GPT-5.6 explanations are limited to the current exhibit's evidence and may abstain when evidence is missing. Its emphasis is on questioning reconstructions and separating documents, archaeology and engineering inference; operation, historical accuracy and this boundary behavior were not independently tested.
Creator or team (original public names)
Weiying Zhu；Yukun Li；Shan Wei（官方署名）；Devpost公开账号另列，未逐一对应实名
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Original title
Mechanica
Original creator credit
Weiying Zhu；Yukun Li；Shan Wei（官方署名）；Devpost公开账号另列，未逐一对应实名
作品是什么
双语古代中国机械数字博物馆，作者说明有四件带证据标注的物理模拟展品；未实际操作。
给谁用
希望操作、拆解展品并理解机械原理的数字博物馆访客。
问题或体验
原机械已失传，文字与静态玻璃展柜难以解释运动关系，复原又存在学术不确定性。
如何使用
选择机械和复原方案 → 注水、拖动或触发机构 → 拆解并检查部件尺寸 → 查看文本、遗物或推断来源；AI讲解受当前展品证据限制。
得到什么
可检查运转和部件依据的互动复原；同一机械可展示竞争性的复原解释。
关键机制
版本化JSON记录机械参数与来源，确定性状态模拟驱动运动；GPT-5.6讲解仅引用已有展品资料，缺依据时拒答。
特点
将文本记载、遗物测量和学者推断分开，保留争议复原；交互复原而非仅观看旋转模型。实际物理正确性尚未独立验证。
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Sources last checked: 2026-10-10