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Reconstructing ancient architecture at Tiwanaku, Bolivia: the potential and promise of 3D printing

Alexei Vranich, 2018. Heritage Science.

Uses a century and a half of measured drawings of the roughly 150 shattered blocks of Pumapunku's standing architecture, none in its original place, to print the pieces and refit them into a reconstruction of the building, which the sixteenth-century Spanish described as unfinished.

MYS0D69YBEA5SKY · mystery · click to copyMPuma Punku and TiwanakuArticleCopy of The 3D-printed reconstruction of the Puma Punku gateway buildingdoi: 10.1186/s40494-018-0231-0Checked against the original0

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Cited for the state of the ruin, the block count and the reconstruction.

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Vranich, A. (2018). Reconstructing ancient architecture at Tiwanaku, Bolivia: the potential and promise of 3D printing. Heritage Science. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-018-0231-0
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