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In this study, some problematic points associated with the application of the box-counting method for the evaluation of the visual complexity of the chosen historic buildings and their surrounding environments are analyzed. The reliability of the results is measured in terms of the variation of the complexity level over different range of scales available in an image. Some rules for the choice of the box sizes used in the box counts are considered and tested in the case of classical fractals with the known theoretical fractal dimension. The proposed algorithm is applied to the evaluations of the fractal dimensions for the historic part of the city of Amasya and its surrounding environment. More accurate computations based on the traditional and new factual material show that there is a strong similarity between the fractal measures of the built and natural landscapes.
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Bourchtein, A., Bourchtein, L., Naoumova, N. (2014). On Fractal Complexity of Built and Natural Landscapes. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014. ICCSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8580. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09129-7_33
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