Bhairavi Udaykumar Ashar

LA4015-1

Forest relations can be deciphered through the interaction of fundamental elements, light, and shadow, flora, and fauna habitat. Light and shadow are one of the most distinctive, where from a top-down frame, the sky speaks to the ground. The multiple shifts of textures of understorey especially the ground cover show a palette of the ground cover is correlated and overlapped to the shadow of upperstorey to understand a distinctive floor palette throughout the forest.The interpretation of the frame is from a macro to a micro degree where the forest is viewed as distinct transitions of the shadow being cast. It scrutinizes several patterns to understand the nature of shadows. Additionally, it tries to explore a visual texture-based mapping method to understand the diversity of ground cover and its correlation to the upper story thus bringing out aspects of microhabitat traits of the forest floor.