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Digging for details: painstaking research results in a brilliant 3D re-creation of Mayan ruins.(Architecture)(Clement Valla)

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Was the layout of ancient Maya cities meticulously planned, or did it occur haphazardly? Did religious beliefs influence the design? Helping to shed light oil these and other questions is Clement Valla, an architectural designer by profession and a 3D freelance modeler by choice, whose 3D imagery painted the necessary picture that enabled archaeologists and others to more accurately formulate their theories about the cities.

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Valla was given the opportunity to record, reconstruct, and then create a documentary about a 1000-year-old Maya city. After more than a year of planning, traveling, and working on the project, be produced a ...

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