DSGN 100 - Elements & Organization

Two seminal articles by a founder of the Gestalt school of psychology, newly translated and accompanied by essays that connect his work to current research.

Perceptual organization is a wide range of processes: perceptual grouping, figure-ground organization, filling-in, completion, perceptual switching, etc. These are most notable in shape perception but they also play a role in texture, lightness, color, motion, and depth perception.

The first English translation of a classic work in vision science from 1936 by a leading figure in the Gestalt movement, covering topics that continue to be major issues in vision research today.

Shape is the only perceptual attribute of an object that allows unambiguous identification. In this first book devoted exclusively to the perception of shape by humans and machines, Zygmunt Pizlo describes how we perceive shapes and how to design machines that can see shapes as we do.