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In the summer of 2005, CAST and University of Pennsylvania researchers conducted high resolution 3D scanning  at the World Heritage Site of Machu Picchu, Peru in collaboration with the Instituto National de Cultura (INC). In July and August of 2009 a joint CAST-UCLA Cotsen Institute's "Modeling Heritage Resources" field program revisited Machu Picchu with the help of Vladimir Davilis, director of P.A.N. Machu Picchu, director of Regional de Cultura Cusco.  The data derived from both projects was made publicly available on the CAST web site.  In spring of 2011 National Geographic staff contacted CAST researcher Snow Winters with a proposal to use the data as the basis for a highly accurate artistic recreation of the site. The project lead to the art-work on the April 2011 cover as well as a 3D “fly-through” of the site created by Winters and made part of the National Geographic electronic version of the magazine.