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GESTALT PRINCIPLES

GESTALT PRINCIPLES . Gestalt Principles: The way in which we organise features of a visual scene by grouping them to perceive a whole, complete form. Figure-Ground.

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GESTALT PRINCIPLES

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  1. GESTALT PRINCIPLES Gestalt Principles: The way in which we organise features of a visual scene by grouping them to perceive a whole, complete form.

  2. Figure-Ground • Organising visual information by perceptually dividing a visual scene into a ‘figure’, which stands out from the ‘ground’ which is its surroundings. • The line of separation between the figure and the ground is known as the contour. The contour is always perceived as belonging to the figure. • Camouflage occurs when figure and ground are not easily separated. • When figure and ground are perceived as legitimate alternatives they are called reversible figures

  3. Figure- Ground Reversible Figure

  4. Figure- Ground Camouflage The contours in this picture are not clearly visible therefore it is difficult to distinguish a ‘figure’ and a ‘ground’ Can you see 13 faces??

  5. Closure • This is the tendency to complete a figure even if our vision of it is incomplete. • We perceive it as a whole recognisable object so the mind completes the picture even though we have not seen the whole of it. • We have a powerful tendency to form shapes even if there are only minimal visual sensations about their existence. • Our perception enables us to add bits to ensure we perceive the whole.

  6. Similarity • The tendency to perceive parts of a visual image that have similar features – such as size, shape, texture or colour – as belonging in a unit, group or ‘whole’. • Ishihara Test for colour blindness • http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.asp

  7. George Seurat was a famous Painter who used Pointalism as his method of art. Pointalism uses thousands of tiny dots of colour to make a complete picture. The observer groups the dots of common colours to create a meaningful form. (Similarity)

  8. Proximity - (Or nearness) • The tendency to perceive parts of a visual image which are positioned close together as belonging together in a group. For example 6 items can be: • A group of six I IIIII - Two groups of three I IIIII - 3 groups of two I IIIII

  9. Which Gestalt Principles are evident in the following pictures?

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