“Calming visual spaces: learning from Kyoto Zen gardens” by Lyons, Tonder, Shortreed and Tetsutani – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Calming visual spaces: learning from Kyoto Zen gardens” by Lyons, Tonder, Shortreed and Tetsutani

  • 2002 Talks: Lyons_Calming Visual Spaces: Learning from Kyoto Zen Gardens

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    Calming visual spaces: learning from Kyoto Zen gardens

Session/Category Title:   Calm Places

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    Zen gardens exhibit sophisticated visual designs achieved with minimal compositions and engender a calm, contemplative atmosphere. Here we use perceptual models to study Zen garden design with the aim of discovering guidelines for the creation of calm visual spaces.

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    1. Shortreed, I. 2001. Kyoto Gardens: A virtual stroll through Zen landscapes. Mercury Software CD-ROM.

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