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Encyclopedia > Cyclopean

Cyclopean is a descriptor applied to the characteristic wall-building method of the Mycenaean culture. Walls were fitted together of huge irregular boulders, without mortar.


Ruins of this nature are found at Greek, Etruscan, and Anatolian sites.


The word comes from the mythical monster Cyclopes, to whom the building of such enormous walls is attributed.


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Cyclopean architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (93 words)
Cyclopean architecture was a characteristic building style of Mycenaean Greek civilization.
Cyclopean ruins are found at Greek, Etruscan, south Indian, Talayotic, and Anatolian sites.
The name comes from the mythical giants Cyclops, to whom the building of such enormous walls was attributed.
United States Patent Application: 0040218809 (5652 words)
The method of claim 1 wherein the cyclopean image is associated with a current cyclopean coordinate and further comprising: computing the forward probability distribution of the stereo disparity based on a distribution of disparity gradients for the current cyclopean coordinate given a previous cyclopean coordinate.
The method of claim 1 wherein the cyclopean image is associated with a current cyclopean coordinate and further comprising: computing the backward probability distribution of the stereo disparity based on a distribution of disparity gradients for a next cyclopean coordinate given the current cyclopean coordinate.
The system of claim 19 wherein the cyclopean image is associated with a current cyclopean coordinate and the cyclopean image generator computes an intensity expectation at the current cyclopean coordinate over and a posterior mean based on the intensity expectation and the joint-posterior density of the stereo disparity with a disparity gradient.
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