I have been researching on how human perceive the world, how do we see and interpret things. Then I found interesting principles called, Gestalt Principle. So I tried to apply it on my visual explorations. Gestalt Principle is a group of principles that explain about human’s visual perception.
Gestalt in German means forms or patterns. The theory attempt to describe how humans group similar elements, recognise patterns and simplify complex images when we perceive objects. The principles are organised into 5 categories: similarity, proximity, continuity, closure, and connectedness.
We tend to organise visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied.
“The whole is something else than the sum of it part” or “The sum is greater than the parts”
We tend to grouped the shape that are similar to each other together. So it is hard to interpret that there is an arrow shape formed by square here.
However, when the colours changed, we see the arrow shape as our brain know this shape (we have seen it before)
If you are most people, I’m sure that you will say that this is a dog. The image below is a group of dots but we perceive it as a dog because we perceive it as a whole.
Proximity stated how colours are one of the factor that might differentiate a group of objects.
With closure, our eyes fill missing part to make the image complete as a whole.
