Gestalt Theory

I'm getting more adventurous with photoshop! For my design I used the figure/ground principle and there ended up being several other principles as well. The striped lines and dashes created a pyramid effect to the center of the flower. Does it look like the striped dashes are falling down or building up? Is the flower in the background or foreground? It almost looks as if the top and bottom triangle sections are the foreground and the side sections are the background. Or vice versa! This design also illustrates the principle of closure as the mind fills in the dashes to make the larger rectangles and triangles (that were created as a result of the rectangles and straight lines). There is also continuation as the the mind continues to make rectangles off the page after staring at it for awhile. More disappearing rectangles are being made in the center too as the brain tries to create the center of the flower. The rectangles also create proximity as they are close together and are perceived as one giant pattern. I had no idea what this was going to look like but it turned out really cool!