Energetically optimal travel across terrain: visualizations and a new metric of geographic distance with anthropological applications

BM Wood, ZJ Wood - Visualization and Data Analysis 2006, 2006 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present a visualization and computation tool for modeling the caloric cost of pedestrian
travel across three dimensional terrains. This tool is being used in ongoing archaeological
research that analyzes how costs of locomotion affect the spatial distribution of trails and
artifacts across archaeological landscapes. Throughout human history, traveling by foot has
been the most common form of transportation, and therefore analyses of pedestrian travel
costs are important for understanding prehistoric patterns of resource acquisition, migration …

Energetically optimal travel across terrain: visualizations and a new metric of geographic distance with archaeological applications

BM Wood, ZJ Wood - SPIE Proceedings: San Jose, CA, 2006 - digitalcommons.calpoly.edu
We present a visualization and computation tool for modeling the caloric cost of pedestrian
travel across three dimensional terrains. This tool is being used in ongoing archaeological
research that analyzes how costs of locomotion affect the spatial distribution of trails and
artifacts across archaeological landscapes. Throughout human history, traveling by foot has
been the most common form of transportation, and therefore analyses of pedestrian travel
costs are important for understanding prehistoric patterns of resource acquisition, migration …
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