Landscape elements

Landscape elements: In visual assessment work, landscapes can be divided into four major elements:
a) Form is the perceived mass or shape of an object that appears unified, and which provides a consciousness of its distinction and relation of a whole to the component parts.
b) Line is the real or imagined path, border, boundary, or intersection of two planes, such as a silhouette, that the eye follows when perceiving abrupt differences in form, colour or texture.
c) Colour is a visual perception that enables the eye to differentiate otherwise identical objects based on the wavelengths of reflected light.
d) Texture is the visual feel of a landscape.

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