Talk:Landscape

looks familiar....
This article looks strikingly similar to a footnote in Barbara Bender, Landscape: Politics and Perspectives, page 2, footnote #3...unless Barbara submitted this material, I hope whoever did asked.

There is an end quote to the Bender note, but no clear indication of where the quote begins. Perhaps with "Landscape"? Needs clarification. Deirdre 23:43, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Reorg
The Landscape article was flagged as needing cleanup so I tried to make a start by creating a new page called "Landscape (Visual Arts)" for the painting stuff, and having "Landscape" as a sort of disambiguation page.

The "Landscape (Visual Arts)" page seems to be pure purple prose. I don't understand a word of it and I don't know which bits should be left in the "visual arts" page and which moved elsewhere. BTW I called it "Visual Arts" rather than "painting" so as to potentially cover photography too. If it's felt better then there couldbe one page for paintings and one for photography (if there is ever any photography content).

For the record, the following are the only substantive bits of information from the old "Landscape" page which haven't yet found a new home. It's important that information isn't lost when this sort of thing is done, so I'll look at this soon when I get a moment (or anyone else please go ahead):

"The practice of designing landscapes to engage with issues around visual pleasure and other aspects in terms of function is landscape architecture. A member of the landscape architecture community who has passed a state registration exam is termed a landscape architect." - should be covered under landscape architecture but I'll check.

"Landforms are based on a set of elements that include elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure, and soil type. Landforms by name include berms, mounds, hills, cliffs, valleys, and so forth." - should be covered under "landforms" but I'll check

"The Habitat Theory claims that people like open landscapes because the human species originates in the African Savanna. This theory has been applied to explain why open landscapes are valued, but it fails to explain why this is not universally true." - not sure about this one. New "Habitat Theory" article???

Above now done.

More reorg
Rather stupidly when doing the above I didn't check to see if there was already a "landscape painting" page. There was, just redirecting to Landscape. Anyway, what I've done is move "Landscape (visual arts)" to "Landscape painting", which is what I should have done to start with. That article is still (IMO) largely incomprehensible, but there you go ....

Landscape in optimization
A neighborhood structure togheter with a problem instance define the topology of the search space, also called landscape. A search landscape can be visualized as a labeled graph in which the nodes are solutions (labels indicate their objective function value) and arcs represent the neighborhood relation between solutions.