the scientific panel on “landscape ecology” was held in nazar research center by presence of professors and experts in “landscape” and “ecology”, in order to discuss the relation of these concepts and definition of “landscape ecology”. in this panel arranged by dr. seyed amir mansouri, director of landscape architecture department at university of tehran and president of nazar research center, ...

This paper provides an international perspective on visual resource stewardship. It examines the long history of Britain’s love affair with its landscapes and abandonment measuring subjective element landscape quality, focusing instead character, which could be objectively assessed. summarises development European Landscape Convention, has been embraced across much Europe, follows emphasis char...

Over the last decade, television screens and display monitors have increased in size considerably, but has this improved our televisual experience? Our working hypothesis was that the audiences adopt a general strategy that "bigger is better." However, as our visual perceptions do not tap directly into basic retinal image properties such as retinal image size (C. A. Burbeck, 1987), we wondered ...

Based on the components and program of VRVA (Visual Resources Values Assessment), a behavioral history of the visitor's perception of the American desert is examined. Emphasis is placed upon contrasts between traditional eastern "garden-park" viewpoints and contemporary desert scenery experiences. Special attention is given to the influence of John Wesley Powell's writings and the art of Georgi...

Shape-from-shading and shape-from-texture methods have the serious drawback that they are applicable only to smooth surfaces, while real surfaces are often rough and crumpled. TO extend such methods to real surfaces we must have a model that also applies to rough surfaces. The fractal surface model [Pentland 831 provides a formalism that is competent to describe such natural 3-D surfaces and, i...