2022 Volume 2021 Issue 2 Pages 65-76
This study focuses on features of the Eight Views of Ram City paintings from Song to Qing dynasty by using the scale-invariant feature transform algorithm. The 40 paintings of the Eight Views were transformed into key points and divided into 3 groups with the cluster analysis method. Combined with the landscape elements classification, it can be found that the combination relationship between landscape elements. As a result, mountain plants integrated with buildings in the Song and Ming dynasties, while the mountains separated by other elements in the Yuan dynasty, early Qing dynasty, and late Qing dynasty. When depicting the lives of citizens, all landscape elements were, often, closely combined in the drawings.