Fractal Analysis of Street Vistas: A Potential Tool for Assessing Levels of Visual Variety in Everyday Street Scenes

Jon Cooper and Reza Oskrochi
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Jon Cooper: Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 OBP, England
Reza Oskrochi: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Wheatley, Oxford OX33 1HX, England

Environment and Planning B, 2008, vol. 35, issue 2, 349-363

Abstract: Fractal analysis and the calculation of fractal dimension offer the potential for the numerical characterisation of places by providing a synthetic measurement of place complexity. This paper provides a fractal analysis of street vistas linking the calculation of fractal dimension to the perception of levels of visual variety present in everyday urban streets. A technique for calculating street vista fractal dimensions of textures extracted from greyscale images is presented, and correlations between the resultant fractal dimension and scores for perceived visual variety are discussed.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1068/b33081

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