The vast rural landscape in the southern United States is conspicuously characterized by the hedgerow trees or groves. The patchwork landscape of fields surrounded by high hedgerows is a traditional and familiar feature of the American countryside. Hedgerows are in effect linear strips of trees, groves, or woodlands, which are often critical habitats for wildlife and important for the visual qu...

The aesthetic design of mountain stream facilities has not received much attention in Taiwan. In recent years, addition to safety concerns, the focus increasingly been on landscape assessment or sense integration with environment. This research is first attempt use visual language translation qualitative analysis for facilities. method different from a traditional narrative analysis. It also ad...

The text describes the procedure used as a part of a collaboration combining visual and sonic processes to build a generative electronic landscape for an installation. Initially the procedure used to develop the algorithm for the visual evolution of the landscape is described in terms of the visual process. Following this, the description of the sonic design of the mix to be controlled by the l...

The application of information technology to landscape analysis dates back to the early work in computer-based mapping. Indeed, much of the early development of what became geographic information systems (GIS) and three-dimensional landscape simulation was undertaken by landscape architects. Mapping of viewsheds quickly became a key element of the landscape-planning process. The process was app...

Visual attention in tranquility evaluations has been examined by eye tracking experiments using audiovisual materials collected in traditional villages of China. The results show that without sound stimuli, the attention areas in tranquility evaluations are more concentrated, compared with those in visual aesthetic quality evaluations. With sound stimuli, the attention areas of tranquility eval...

Bias in efferent commands to the eye changes the apparent straight ahead direction in an unstructured visual field, but has little effect in a normal visual environment. Naive subjects set a visible marker to appear straight ahead under monocular viewing conditions and while pressing on the viewing eye. Three background conditions were used: a naturalistic landscape photograph, a blank field, a...

This article examines the reworking of Victorian beauty in visual culture post-war Britain. Although work modernization and reconstruction was regarded as a symbolic break with nineteenth-century past, age continued to haunt nation years following end war, generating its own distinctive fascination beauty. Focusing on an historical melodrama, Pink String Sealing Wax (UK; dir. Robert Hamer, 1945...