Gestalt Laws of Perception

Closure, Continuity, Proximity, Similarity and Figure-Ground

Closure, Relative Size, Figure-Ground, Proximity and Ambiguity

The Gestalt theory is that we look at the image on the whole and conclude it and ignore the details as what is on the whole is more important.

Gestalts theory is that we perceive our world by organising the arts of a stimulus into a 'whole' we do this by using The Gestalt grouping laws together to help us find 'good form' in the stimulus to make it more understandable.

We perceive a pattern that isn't actually there

Lines or shapes are perceived as complete figures even if arts are missing.

When objects are in close proximity (near each other) we perceive them to be related.

When objects are in close proximity we group them together.

a ambiguous, and big in size and parallel (figure) is separate from the background (ground)

A small, complex, symmetrical object (figure) is separate from the background (ground)

We perceive a pattern that isn't actually there

We perceive a pattern as ongoing.

It helps us to recognise things of similar characteristics and make a pattern with them.

It helps us to group things that look similar (colour, shape...) together if they have the same characteristics.

It accounts for ambiguous figures with the law figure-ground.

It accounts for all distortion

It can only explain the Muller-Lyer distortion and no other.

It doesn't explain any fiction illusions.