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Ten to Chi

What lies hidden above?

Ten to Chi (jap. “Heaven and Earth” (天と地)) is part of the bachelor thesis of Florian Frühwirth. The goal was to create a computer program with which user-defined point patterns could be compared to the stars in the night sky, with the primary use case being trying to find depictions of asterisms in prehistoric art, such as cave paintings or stone reliefs. The project is open-source (GNU GPL v2) and may be used by everyone for whatever purpose they see fit.

Note that the software is a auxiliary tool intended to offer tentative leads. Neither positive nor negative results should be seen as definite proof of any archaeoastronomical connection (or lack thereof). Should you intend to use this software in an academic setting, it is strongly advised to familiarize yourself with the code and read the documentation and/or the thesis paper.

Documentation

The Python code is documented on GitHub.

For usage instructions, consult the Wiki.

For detailed instructions and further background information, the lecture of the thesis paper is recommended (links and translations to follow).

Download

The project’s source code as well as executables are released on GitHub.

A full package, that includes the accompanying paper as pdf, is also available, so far only in German. It can be found here.