Course Overview
This course introduces the principles and tools related to of visual landscape design. Students will review and analyze existing visual perception research, and the requirements for visual landscape design in sustainable resource management planning processes. Both manual and introductory computer application techniques will be used to generate line of sight, and landscape alteration analysis. Perspective views from given viewpoints and flythroughs along roads and rivers will be created with various computer applications.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Analyse visual perception research related to how different groups of people perceive the landscape.
- Access and interpret visual landscape management inventory information.
- Explain the basic principles of visual landscape design.
- Conduct a visual landscape impact assessment.
- Create a line of sight analysis based on both paper maps, and on digital information.
- Generate digital visual landscape models.
- Create perspective views from given viewpoints.
- Simulate visual landscapes while travelling along roads or rivers.
- Drape vegetation images over landscape models given existing database information.
Effective as of Fall 2009
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