Maya Skies Internal Production Site

1. Asset Preview
(Production/Press Kit)

...n. The asset setportrays Chichen as it appears today as well as its appearance in the past. Chichen Itza, the most well-known ancient Maya city, is the focus of Maya Skies. Most of our material c...

2. Chichén Itzá Lightweight Site Model
(Production/Modeling & Capture)

This short sequence moves through a lightweight reference scene of Chichen Itza. The models shown were modeling using ortho views from Ruppert, Morris, Thompson and Maquina's original publication

3. Preview - January 2008
(Production/Press Kit)

...m show. Visual Introduction to the Site (Images) The planetarium show Maya Skies is set in Chichen Itza, one of the most important Maya sites in Yucatan, Mexico. This image gallery includes imag...

4. Maya to Radiance Conversion
(Production/Rendering)

maya2rad Developed by Kenneth Ibrahim, 11/2007, Chichen Itza Hacienda Lab Description maya2rad is a simple MEL script that exports a suite of files for rendering with the Radiance renderer. The c

5. INSIGHT Maya Skies Team
(Production/Press Kit)

The Maya Skies INSIGHT Team This list includes many people who generously donated their time and effort to join the documentation effort, as well as the core team from the Institute for the Stu

6. Bibliography
(Research/Research)

... Balankanche, Throne of the Tiger Priest, Tulane University, E. Wyllys Andrews IV, 1970 Chichen Itza and Ed Baklam:Terminal Classic Inscriptions from Yucatan (Maya Hieroglyphic Forum), 2003 ...

7. Photometric Stereo Research
(Research/Research)

Site Work at Chichen Itza The abundant epigraphic detail at Chichen Itza presents a challenge for any documentation technique. The sheer scale of the surfaces covered with inscriptions makes trad

8. Unified Test A
(Research/Research)

Overview In order to efficiently capture details for important epigraphic passages, we propose integrating high-frequency photometric stereo data with low-frequency stereo matching data. This fir

9. Chichén Itzá Maps
(Preproduction/Site Capture)

...eyed by J. O. Kilmartin and J. P. O'Neill and first published in Karl Ruppert's "The Caracol at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico" (1935). The version presented here was reprinted with revisions in Rupper...

10. Introduction
(Research/Welcome)

...team has developed to aid in the capture and modeling of specific archeological features at the Chichen Itza site. Click on any of the links below to learn more. ...