For my project I took a hue of red and slowly shifted the tones by 10% with each diagonal row of hearts by using the hexadecimal system. The gradual color shift is appealing to the eye because they seem to flow and mix together. It is not till the end of the color scheme, near the greens and light blues, when your eye truly understands how many colors exist between each 10% interval jump, because the colors seem to be shifting too quickly. I used the Gestalt idea of similarity to draw more attention to the color shift then to the shapes itself. Due to proximity your brain perceives the image as one and therefore attempts to disregard entirely the random black heart that is the wrong shape and color. The color and structure of the piece also allows for continuation as your eye passes over the square. That continuation is broken by the black heart, but if you stare more closely you will find that the "square" is actually a rectangle, though your eye prefers to think of it as a square, because that would be more appealing and symmetrical.
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