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| | Amazon.com: Laws of Seeing: Books: Wolfgang Metzger,Lothar Spillmann,Steven Lehar,M. Stromeyer,Michael Wertheimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | The "laws of seeing" are Gestalt laws, under the umbrella of the famous law of pragnanz, "which holds that stimuli organize themselves in the simplest, most symmetrical, and balanced manner." It anticipates a wide variety of phenomena (e.g., shape from shading) that were of great interest to later researchers. |
 | | Metzger's photos and illustrations are among the crowning achievements of this book, in that they capture essential aspects of the gestalt principles in ways that have, in some cases, been forgotten until now. |
 | | Metzger concludes with a certain bravado regarding the primacy of psychology, observation and perceptual science, which is heartening. |
| www.amazon.com /Laws-Seeing-Wolfgang-Metzger/dp/0262134675 (1455 words) |
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