ABSTRACT
Landscaping evokes imagery of objects occupying physical space across wider horizons of viewing than are typically available in portraiture. Faced with the problem of describing the layout and activity of a panoramic scene, we have come to instinctively rely on communication with pictures and illustrations more than with words. Floor plans, diagrams, landscape paintings, photographs, and video recordings are just a few of the tools that we use to communicate different features of physical spaces. Words, conveying meaning in discrete semantic bits, are poorly equipped to reference areas across a contiguous space.
