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Author Metzger, Wolfgang, 1899-1979.

Uniform Title Gesetze des Sehens. English
Title Laws of seeing [electronic resource] / Wolfgang Metzger ; translated by Lothar Spillmann ... [et al.].

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxv, 203 p. : ill.
Note Translated from the German.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction to the English translation -- Preface -- Introduction: overview of the history of visual theory -- 1 Ambiguous figures in our daily environment -- 2 Visible and invisible forms -- 3 Of groups and borders -- 4 Developmental stages in shape formation -- 5 Gestalt laws serving camouflage -- 6 Brightness and spatial form -- 7 Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of perspective drawings -- 8 Form and substance of seen things- the Pragnanz tendency -- Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of brightness -- 10 Yet another important camouflage principle -- 11 The wandering moon -- 12 Laws of seeing and laws of nature.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Language Translated from the German.
Subject Visual perception.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0262134675 (alk. paper)
9780262134675 (alk. paper)
9780262134675

 
    
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