Code for Horizon Morphology Analysis at Changbai Mountain, Jin Dynasty Site

A code repository for a continuous-surface approach to archaeological landscape visual quality analysis. The method analyzes horizon morphology using ray-tracing and transforms horizon profiles into directional skyline vectors. The approach was applied to the Jin dynasty royal sacrificial temple site at Changbai Mountain in northeast China.

Use Cases

• Conducting archaeological visibility analysis based on horizon morphology methods described in the paper.
• Comparing visual settings of culturally significant places based on continuous visual surfaces.
• Applying principal component analysis to decompose standardized horizon profiles into axes of skyline variation.
• Evaluating skyline structure using a directional weighted discrete cosine transform score with perceptual assumptions.

Strengths

• Includes the full code repository (15.0 MB) for replicating the published methodology.
• Applies a novel analytical approach to a specific, culturally significant archaeological site (Changbai Mountain).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for reuse and modification.

Limitations

• The repository contains code and documentation files (MD, PY, TEX, etc.), but the actual input/output data files are not explicitly described or guaranteed to be included.
• Column-level documentation for any potential data outputs is absent; data semantics must be inferred from the code.
• Row count for any generated data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for direct ML use.

Provenance

Source

Author Zehao Li via figshare.

Collection Method

Code developed for the research paper 'Seeing the Skyline: A Continuous Surface Approach to Landscape Visual Quality'.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 09:33:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Changbai Mountain, northeast China.