Computer-Aided Landscape Design - (Includes one CD-ROM)

Author: Yan Jun
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This textbook is a premium course at Nanjing Forestry University. Through years of teaching and practical experience, and by referencing advanced techniques learned abroad, the author has comprehensively applied various software, leveraging their unique features, to summarize a set of computer-aided landscape design methods. The book is divided into three parts: Basic, Advanced, and Personalized. It introduces commonly used software such as AutoCAD and Photoshop, as well as CorelDRAW, which the author discovered and applied in practice, and SketchUp and Piranesi, which are less commonly used domestically but offer greater personalization. Combined with the author's research projects, teaching, and actual engineering applications, the book details the stages of landscape design using these software tools, providing step-by-step instructions for progressive learning. At the end of the book, excellent examples drawn with each software are included for readers to appreciate and reference, along with a CD-ROM containing materials for practicing landscape design using these software tools. The book is closely tied to landscape design, demonstrating strong practicality and certain academic value, making it suitable for teaching and reference by faculty and students in landscape architecture, environmental art, and related fields, as well as enthusiasts.