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Gestalt Principles
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Gestalt is a psychology term which means "unified whole". It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s.
These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied. Gestalt means when parts identified individually have different characteristics to the whole (Gestalt means "organised whole")
e.g. describing a tree - it's parts are trunk, branches, leaves, perhaps blossoms or fruit
But when you look at an entire tree, you are not conscious of the parts, you are aware of the overall object - the tree.
Parts are of secondary importance even though they can be clearly seen.
Here's some example of it:
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