In just about every image that someone lays their eyes on, there is a set of laws and principles known as the Gestalt principles of perception. The Gestalt principles are part of this process, that is a collection of principles acting together to decide how the visual world is understood. Having a comprehensive grasp of these principles, allows the viewer to acquire an exceptional understanding on how to organize visual elements into groups. This depiction above includes the following, from Gestalts’ grouping principles:
We tend to determine the figure and ground relationship in an image when something first meets our gaze in order to make sense of it. Gestalts figure ground principles describes that elements in an image that are perceived …show more content…
The law of good continuation suggests, that two elements will group together when they seem to lie on the same contour. Meaning, we are better at perceiving straight and curved lines rather than jagged rough broken ones. The edges of a shape will follow the direction of a shape rather than deviate from it. To explain using the depiction, we see that the FedEx box edge overlaps with the vase behind it. However, we do not perceive the edge of the box and the vase as connected to each other. Rather, we see the line that follows the smoothest path. Thus, the edge of the box and vase are separate from another. The principle holds that humans perceive two or more objects as singular and different things even when they are intersected. In addition, previous experiences of the figure are stored in our memory which allows our mind to perceive the incomplete or partially hidden object as a specific figure. Closure also plays a role in this case. Closure is one of the Gestalt’s principles that suggests a visual connection that continues between sets of figures which do not actually touch each other. When an object is incomplete or not totally enclosed our mind fills in the missing information. The vase that lines behind the FedEx box has an incomplete space. Our previous experiences and the law of continuity allows us to understand that it is not two separate pieces, but a complete
We tend to determine the figure and ground relationship in an image when something first meets our gaze in order to make sense of it. Gestalts figure ground principles describes that elements in an image that are perceived …show more content…
The law of good continuation suggests, that two elements will group together when they seem to lie on the same contour. Meaning, we are better at perceiving straight and curved lines rather than jagged rough broken ones. The edges of a shape will follow the direction of a shape rather than deviate from it. To explain using the depiction, we see that the FedEx box edge overlaps with the vase behind it. However, we do not perceive the edge of the box and the vase as connected to each other. Rather, we see the line that follows the smoothest path. Thus, the edge of the box and vase are separate from another. The principle holds that humans perceive two or more objects as singular and different things even when they are intersected. In addition, previous experiences of the figure are stored in our memory which allows our mind to perceive the incomplete or partially hidden object as a specific figure. Closure also plays a role in this case. Closure is one of the Gestalt’s principles that suggests a visual connection that continues between sets of figures which do not actually touch each other. When an object is incomplete or not totally enclosed our mind fills in the missing information. The vase that lines behind the FedEx box has an incomplete space. Our previous experiences and the law of continuity allows us to understand that it is not two separate pieces, but a complete