Experience Gestalt Pictures

My former student John Tsau forwarded me some other examples of pictures that can be seen in different ways. What we can see is to a large extent conditioned what we expect to see in the world in the first place…

Gestalt psychologists have worked out these principles as guiding our perception.

• Proximity: We tend to group things together that are close together in space.

• Similarity: We tend to group things together that are similar

• Good Continuation: We tend to perceive things in good form

• Closure: We tend to make our experience as complete as possible

• Figure and Ground: We tend to organize our perceptions by distinguishing between a figure and a background.

Source: turnyourhead.com