Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye |
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... square and not the square by the disk . This brings to mind experiments by Duncker in which luminous line patterns were put in slow motion relative to each other in a dark room . Regardless of what happened physically , the enclosed ...
... square and not the square by the disk . This brings to mind experiments by Duncker in which luminous line patterns were put in slow motion relative to each other in a dark room . Regardless of what happened physically , the enclosed ...
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... square . What exactly is a distortion ? Not every deviation from a given shape is a distortion . If I clip a corner from a square and add it at some other place of the outline , a change of shape results but no distortion . If I enlarge ...
... square . What exactly is a distortion ? Not every deviation from a given shape is a distortion . If I clip a corner from a square and add it at some other place of the outline , a change of shape results but no distortion . If I enlarge ...
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... square along one of its axes will result in a rectangle ; but a rectangle does not normally look like a distorted square . The visual identity of a pattern is determined mainly by its structural skeleton . A square is characterized by ...
... square along one of its axes will result in a rectangle ; but a rectangle does not normally look like a distorted square . The visual identity of a pattern is determined mainly by its structural skeleton . A square is characterized by ...
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