Population diversification phenomena becomes quite common in villages located in China’s developed coastal area. Based on the analysis of the traditional rural society and its landscape characteristics, and in consideration of diversified landscape requirements due to the population diversification, with dual ideas of heritage and innovation, methods for rural landscape design were explored by ...

This work analyzes fitness landscapes for the image filter design problem approached using functional-level Cartesian Genetic Programming. Smoothness and ruggedness of fitness landscapes are investigated for five genetic operators. It is shown that the mutation operator and the single-point crossover operator generate the smoothest landscapes and thus they are useful for practical applications ...

Trends in Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology From Landscape Painting to Design: A Case Study of the “Wearing Landscape” Design Project Chien-Chih Ni1 and Rungtai Lin2 1Department Design, Hsuan Chuang University, Taiwan 2Graduate School Creative Industry National University Arts, *Corresponding author:Rungtai Lin, Graduate No. 59, Section 1, Daguan Road, Banqiao District, New Taipei City, ...

In the Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., metropolitan area, community associations with legally binding covenants, codes, and restrictions (CC&Rs) impose limitations on landscaping activities in many new neighborhood residential communities. Studies were conducted in the Phoenix area to develop an understanding of residential homeowner landscape preferences and practices and how they might be impacted by...

We put forward a framework for cosmology that combines the string landscape with no boundary initial conditions. In this framework, amplitudes for alternative histories for the universe are calculated with final boundary conditions only. This leads to a top down approach to cosmology, in which the histories of the universe depend on the precise question asked. We study the observational consequ...