gesalt principles Flashcards
1
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what are gesalt principles
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gesalt principles are rules we apply to visual information to aid in organinsing and grouping features in a visual scene to perceive a whole complete form.
2
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figure-ground
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figure ground organisation is dividing the figure/main object from the ground (background/surroundings)
3
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closure
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the perceptual tendency to mentally fill in/close up gaps in a the visual image to perceive the object as complete
4
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similarity
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to automatically organise or see objects with shared characteristics as a whole. like size shape colour texture
5
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proximity
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the tendency to perceive parts of an visual image that are close togteher as being apart of the same group.
