Abstract
Although archaeoastronomically significant alignments throughout Mesoamerica are usually described solely in architectural terms (that is, as monumental aspects of calendric notation), in this article I present evidence (in the form of a case study of the Palace of the Jaguars, Teotihuacan) that alignments may have been utilized to engineer complex optical transformations of pictorial artifacts. To describe the interplay between light and color manifest in the structure's murals throughout the day, I utilize a virtual reconstruction of the structure. Drawing on recent developments in cognitive science, I explain how polychromatic assemblages could indeed appear to ‘come alive’.
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