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Unraveling feng-shui
journal contribution
posted on 1997-01-01, 00:00 authored by Ramesh KrishnamurtiThis paper comes in three parts. First, relevant principles of fēng-shuǐ are enunciated and examined. Second, these principles are applied to procedures to compute two parameters of predesign behaviour in Chinese traditional architectural practice: the fortunate orientation for a building site and an auspicious date for the start of its construction. Third, an interactive computer implementation is described that incorporates these procedures