<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>A “landscape dominant element” – an object with the greatest range of visual impact on the surrounding space, of a strong form that integrates the entirety of a composition, distinguished by its height, dimensions, colour, material, texture or the variety of its details. The attempts to define the concept presented herein, and which is intuitively perceived as obvious, illustrate its ambiguity. They bring to mind a visual contrast between this subject and others that surround it. This article attempts to analyse views using the author’s computer program. The objects in the photos are characterized by their interference in a panorama silhouette or skyline, size, colour, height, and shape. This helped to identify those that clearly stand out from the other forms, with which they come into visual interaction. The purpose of these considerations is to create tools that allow for a partial objectification of the landscape composition assessment.</p></abstract>

A “landscape dominant element” – an object with the greatest range of visual impact on the surrounding space, of a strong form that integrates the entirety of a composition, distinguished by its height, dimensions, colour, material, texture or the variety of its details. The attempts to define the concept presented herein, and which is intuitively perceived as obvious, illustrate its ambiguity. They bring to mind a visual contrast between this subject and others that surround it. This article attempts to analyse views using the author’s computer program. The objects in the photos are characterized by their interference in a panorama silhouette or skyline, size, colour, height, and shape. This helped to identify those that clearly stand out from the other forms, with which they come into visual interaction. The purpose of these considerations is to create tools that allow for a partial objectification of the landscape composition assessment.

Landscape Dominant Element – An Attempt to Parameterize the Concept

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A “landscape dominant element” – an object with the greatest range of visual impact on the surrounding space, of a strong form that integrates the entirety of...

Landscape Dominant Element – An Attempt to Parameterize the Concept

Publicado en línea: 16 may 2020

Páginas: 35 - 62

Recibido: 03 oct 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.19.004.10044

Palabras clave
landscape dominant element, landscape assessment, view analysis, shape descriptors, colour, size, skyline

© 2020 Agnieszka Ozimek, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Landscape Dominant Element – An Attempt to Parameterize the Concept

Publicado en línea: 16 may 2020

Páginas: 35 - 62

Recibido: 03 oct 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.19.004.10044

Palabras clavelandscape dominant element, landscape assessment, view analysis, shape descriptors, colour, size, skyline

© 2020 Agnieszka Ozimek, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Palabras clave
landscape dominant element, landscape assessment, view analysis, shape descriptors, colour, size, skyline