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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Machu Picchu"”.
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Journey to Machu Picchu: Where History, Culture, and Imagination Intertwine
This thesis began as an exploration of how to create an immersive design through an immersive design experience. The project I used to study this inquiry was the design of a new country pavilion at Epcot in Walt Disney World based on Peru. This project revealed that in architecture, the design …
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Gaming and the simulation of history constructing perspectives of Machu Picchu
… this method, I studied the historical site of Machu Picchu in Peru, and the story of its discovery by explorer Hiram Bingham in 1911. Bingham's expedition remains today the constituting myth of the site, captured in multiple documents, primarily Bingham's travel journal, but also in photography …
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The Huacas of Machu Picchu: Inca Stations for The Communion Between Humanity and Nature
… stones, or huacas, at the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu integrated human ritual with the surrounding landscape. I argue that huacas defined the relationship between nature and ritual practice by forcing an esoteric choreography which involved specific postures of the participant in order to …
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Machine Learning Simulation of Pedestrians Exploring the Built Environment
… site data, collected through fieldwork in Machu Picchu, located in Cusco, Peru. The method had two sections Data Production and Model Development, which resulted in a trained Navigational Agent. Finally, validation tests were proposed and conducted to evaluate the Agent's behavior. The …
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Quaerere Sententias I
… are featured in the video. Bingham’s search for Machu Picchu is the narrative focus behind the piece, as is the sense of purpose derived from the uncovering of an ancient civilization. Simultaneously, Hiram is concerned with the mysteries of Incan ontology, lost to time even as Quechua people …