Nazca Lines

Examples of Nazca Lines in the following topics:

• The Nazca

  • The geoglyphs of Nazca, or "Nazca Lines," are a series of geometric shapes, extended lines that run for miles, and large drawings of animal figures (some as large as a football field) constructed on the desert floor in the Nazca region.
  • A large number of people over an extended period of time could have constructed the lines.
  • The contrast of the red desert pebbles and the lighter earth beneath would make the lines visible from a high altitude.
  • Several theories have been posited as to why the Nazca Lines exist, but the true meaning of the geoglyphs remains a mystery.
  • These Nazca lines, called The Hummingbird, are representative of the type of structures that remain.

• Ceramics in Early South America

  • The ceramic objects of the Paracas, Nazca, and Moche communities of Peru are varied in artistic forms and were important cultural artifacts.
  • The Nazca culture (also Nasca) flourished from 100 to 800 CE beside the dry southern coast of Peru in the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca drainage and the Ica Valley.
  • Having been heavily influenced by the preceding Paracas culture, the Nazca produced an array of beautiful crafts and technologies such as ceramics, textiles, and geoglyphs (most commonly known as the Nazca lines).
  • The Nazca culture is characterized by its beautiful polychrome pottery, painted with at least fifteen distinct colors.
  • Traditional North Coast Peruvian ceramic art uses a limited palette, relying primarily on red and white, fine line painting, fully modeled clay, naturalistic figures, and stirrup spouts (in which the stirrup handle forms part of the spout, which emanates from the top of the stirrup).

• Qualities of Line

  • Quality of line refers to the character that is embedded in the way a line presents itself.
  • Hard-edged, jagged lines present a staccato visual movement, while sinuous, flowing lines create a more comfortable feeling.
  • Horizontal, diagonal, and vertical lines describe a line's orientation.
  • Contour lines define the outer edges of an object.
  • Hatch lines are defined as parallel lines which are repeated short intervals generally in one direction.

• Chimú

  • Walk-in wells, similar to those of the Nazca, were developed to draw water.

• Religion in the Inca Empire

  • Although this skull predates the Inca Empire, and is from the Nazca culture, Inca elites would reshape infants' skulls in a similar manner to illustrate a higher class status.

• Lines of Cleavage and Surgery

  • Cleavage lines are topological lines drawn on a map of the human body and correspond to the orientation of collagen fibers in the dermis.
  • Langer's lines, sometimes called cleavage lines, are topological lines drawn on a map of the human body .
  • Kraissl's lines differ from Langer's lines in that while Langer's lines were defined in cadavers, Kraissl's lines have been defined in living individuals.
  • The lines described by Kraissl differ in some ways from Langer's lines, particularly on the face.
  • Tension lines of the human skin.

• Line

• The Distance Between Two Lines

• The Existence of Inverse Functions and the Horizontal Line Test

  • Recognize whether a function has an inverse by using the horizontal line test

• Equations of Lines and Planes

  • A line is a vector which connects two points on a plane and the direction and magnitude of a line determine the plane on which it lies.
  • A line is described by a point on the line and its angle of inclination, or slope.
  • Every line lies in a plane which is determined by both the direction and slope of the line.
  • The components of equations of lines and planes are as follows:
  • Now, we can use all this information to form the equation of a line on plane $M$.