Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye |
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... look unbalanced by itself . Together they make for a symmetrically located pair that is at rest . However , the same pair may look intolerably unbalanced when moved to another place ( Figure 4b ) . The earlier analysis of the structural ...
... look unbalanced by itself . Together they make for a symmetrically located pair that is at rest . However , the same pair may look intolerably unbalanced when moved to another place ( Figure 4b ) . The earlier analysis of the structural ...
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... look balanced and giving the bottom overweight so that it looks heavier than the top . Langfeld says : " If one is asked to bisect a perpendicular line without measuring it , one almost invariably places the mark too high . If a line is ...
... look balanced and giving the bottom overweight so that it looks heavier than the top . Langfeld says : " If one is asked to bisect a perpendicular line without measuring it , one almost invariably places the mark too high . If a line is ...
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... look exactly as they are drawn . At the other extreme , space looks infinitely deep . All physically parallel lines run parallel . All physical objects have their real shape and relative size . In a picture converging lines are now seen ...
... look exactly as they are drawn . At the other extreme , space looks infinitely deep . All physically parallel lines run parallel . All physical objects have their real shape and relative size . In a picture converging lines are now seen ...
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