Atmosphere

Landscape modeling and visualization requires attention, beyond the constituent elements (landform, plants and water) to the two essential ingredients that shape how the landscape looks and feels: the atmosphere, and the light that passes through it. Sunlight, moonlight, or streetlights (or the lack of them) have everything to do with how we see the landscape and its elements. Horizontal rays of golden sunlight on waving fields of grain; leaden gray clouds over rolling hills of heath and moss, enveloped in hazy gray fog; moonlight reflected beneath a stone bridge over a still pond; fluffy white clouds in a clear blue sky -- these are all images .... more...