Composition Principles
Spatial logic extracted from miniatures, murals, shan-shui, thangka, and Mughal landscape Purpose This document extracts the spatial-organisation principles from five traditions: Pahari miniature painting (A1), Buddhist murals (A3), shan-shui painting (A9), thangka painting (A4), and Mughal landscape (A8). The goal is not description but extraction — how do these traditions organise space? — yielding principles that can inform interface and visual design. This feeds design-language.org. Principle 1: No Vanishing Point Not one of the five traditions uses single-point linear perspective as its primary spatial system. Each has a different reason, but the refusal is unanimous. ...