Murnau didn't film a narrative so much as let one happen while he documented the visual-emotional terrain around it, moving in single shots from room to room, from inside the hotel to the street, up and down stairs, and so on.
The visual significance of terrain is heavily influenced by the vertical dimension (i.e. slope, aspect and elevation) and distance from the observer, neither of which are adjusted for in standard viewshed analyses.
Multiple surfaces and 3D animations are also used to introduce novel concepts for visual analysis of terrain models derived from time-series of LiDAR data using multi-year core and envelope surfaces.
These are outright gorgeous, fully equipped all-terrain visual vehicles, intent on being intensely pleasurable while making a point or two about society, art, history, visual perception, the human animal or all of the above.
New and abstract terrains, visual languages, and imaginary environments nod to interstellar travel and perhaps even science fiction in the intricate ink illustrations of musician and artist Brandon Locher.
As the spatial resolution of in-orbital images is updated up to sub-meter level, inorbital planetary images can provide visual observation of detailed terrain features.
Their role as landmarks and, most probably, as centers for different social/functional units is expected to be manifested in a considerable visual prominence on the terrain.
This paper proposes a GIS tool which analyzes the visual exposure of a terrain from single or multiple observation points, starting from a digital elevation model (DEM).
Intricate Ink Illustrations Imagine New Terrains and Visual Languages.
