Maya Skies Internal Production Site

1. Asset Preview
(Production/Press Kit)

...he most well-known ancient Maya city, is the focus of Maya Skies. Most of our material centers on this site.The Pyramid of Kukulkan / Castillo, a structure that has become synonymous with the Maya cu...

2. Raw Data Vol 2 - Close Range Scan Data Spreadsheet
(Production/Modeling & Capture)

This information pertains to all close range scan data captured on site in the Yucatan. maya_skies_close_range_scan_data

3. Rendering with Sunflow
(Preproduction/Render Tests)

...verted it to polygons, placed UV's and applied a base texture from ortho-rectified photographs taken on site. It was converted from Blender as we did not have a functioning Maya2008 exporter for Sunfl...

4. Rendering with Fryrender
(Preproduction/Render Tests)

...closer to 4K. While the still image fidelity and functionality of Fryrender is excellent (see their website for examples), we are mostly observing it's viability (render time and flickering artefacts...

5. Scene Rendering July 2008
(Production/Rendering)

...lighting (Mental Ray) Above, a dome render with lighting and textures from photography taken on site. Perspective render of scene geometry with shading, lighting (Mental Ray) This i...

6. Poisson Surface Reconstruction
(Production/Modeling & Capture)

Our on-site geometry capture work in the Yucatan yielded many different datasets, depending on the type of spatial sampling implemented. The majority of the data exists as point data. Many techniq

7. 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

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

Mayaskies.net is the internet site for the Maya Skies show production team. Many public resources are available, from online forums and image galleries to links to scholarly research connected with t

9. 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

10. Chichén Itzá Maps
(Preproduction/Site Capture)

...en Itza: Architectural Notes and Plans" (1952). The maps here come are excerpted from the Carnegie web site: http://www.mesoweb.com/chichen/resources/map/. The scale of the maps here are give...

11. Introduction
(Research/Welcome)

Mayaskies.net is the working production site for the full dome film "Maya Skies". The Maya Skies project is a collaborative effort funded by several entities including the National Science

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(Static Content)

This website is powered by Joomla! The software and default templates on which it runs are Copyright 2005 Open Source Matters. All other content and data, including data entered into this website an

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