Inca builders at Machu Picchu National Archaeological Park

Abstract

Knowledge about the Inca measurement system is based on information from the colonial chronicles and modern studies of the 16th-century Quechua dictionaries. Based on those texts, we can presume that the Incas used an anthropometric system of measurement adopted from the proportions of the human body. Using cosine quantogram analysis and statistical verification, it is possible to verify the existence of the measurement system used by the Inca architects. For this purpose, a measurement series of architectural and water infrastructure elements were collected from 3D point cloud of the Chachabamba and Machu Picchu settlements in Machupicchu National Archaeological Park.

Research on Classification of Huizhou Architectural Culture and Extraction of Cultural Characteristics of Villages Based on Cluster Analysis Algorithm

“…represents the corresponding weights of attribute values it x and jt x respectively, and the difference of the weights is used to represent the external dissimilarity between them. Using the frequency of attribute values and the weights of attribute values, the class centers are re-described and the average weights corresponding to the class centers are found out, so that the clustering accuracy can be effectively improved to complete the classification of architectural culture and the effective extraction of cultural features of villages [22].…”