Extended Matrix is a method (the formal language), a framework (a family of open-source tools), and a community. Three short paths below — each leads you straight to where the work happens.
For archaeologists, heritage scholars, students.
Begin with the formal language: it is what you will read, write and discuss when reasoning about evidence. Pencil and paper are enough to start.
For 3D artists, modellers, technical-archaeologists.
Bring an existing graph into Blender, link proxies to stratigraphic units, drive visualisation by epoch and property, export to the web.
For developers and tool-builders.
EM is implemented as a Python knowledge-graph library
(s3dgraphy) you can plug into any platform — Revit,
3ds Max, Unity, Unreal, custom pipelines.
pip install s3dgraphy and read the
repository README.
For project leads, coordinators, supervisors.
Extended Matrix projects compose eight professional figures — stratigrapher, source hunter, survey specialist, IT specialist, EM drawer, basic modeller, advanced modeller, storyteller. Most projects cover them with two or three real humans wearing several hats. Naming the figures explicitly is what lets a project scale beyond a single researcher.
Tell us what you have and what you want, and we'll show you the tools and steps you need.
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