Gestalt Principles

• Gestalt principles are a visual perception principle. The other type is visual constancies.

  Visual perception principles are guiding rules that apply to incoming signals and determine how they are

  organised and interpreted.
• The principle of proximity (also called nearness) is the tendency to perceive parts of a

  visual image which are positioned close together as belonging together in a group.
• The principle of similarity involves the tendency to perceive parts of a visual image that

  have similar features — such as size, shape, texture or colour — as belonging together in a unit, group

  or ‘whole’.
• FIGURE-GROUND PRINCIPLE
• FIGURE-GROUND PRINCIPLE: The principle that the main subject of a painting is the most important part of the painting.
• Closure is the perceptual tendency to mentally ‘close up’, fill in or ignore gaps

  in a visual image and to perceive incomplete objects as complete (‘whole’).
• Visual constancies refer to our ability to perceive objects as staying the same, even though they may appear to

  change or do change in our perception.