Maya Archaeologist

Occupational health and the archaeologist.

Virtual Archaeologist: Assembling the Past

This paper describes a semi-automatic system for the reconstruction of archaeological finds from their fragments. Virtual Archaeologist is a system that uses computer graphics to calculate a measure of complementary matching between scanned data and employs optimization algorithms in order to estimate the correct relative pose between fragments and cluster those fragments that belong to the sam...

Visualizing Maya

Pervasive animation in games, animation, films, numerous websites and stand-alone information interfaces, means that software increasingly influences how we imagine fictions, display information and interact with a digitally mediated world. Given its centrality in creating image, how can a 3D software package be made visible beyond the images seen in cinema, in games, commercials and visualizat...

The psychiatrist as archaeologist and architect

A colleague and I recently proposed a model to guide the description and reform of mental health services and to clarify service evaluation (Tansella & Thornicroft, 1998). The model, which we call the ‘mental health matrix’, consists of two dimensions, one temporal and one geographical. The temporal dimension comprises three phases: input (phase A), process (phase B) and outcome (phase C). The ...

Origins of the Maya Forest Garden: Maya Resource Management