Abstract describe a theory of the Gestalt notion of [pattern]" goodness" on the basis of the
mathematical construct of symmetry subgroups/there is a close relation between this theory …

Three experiments were carried out to investigate the internal structure of a rectangular
frame to test Arnheim's (1974 Art and Visual Perception, 1988 The Power of the Center) …

Image understanding is an attempt to extract knowledge about a 3D scene from 20 images.
The recent development of computers has made it possible to automate a wide range of …

The beauty of visual patterns is quantified, starting from the assumption that beauty is
maximal when a maximum of effect is attained with a minimum of means applied. Birkhoff …

Abstract" Probability of alternate perceptual responses is suggested as an approximate
quantitative index of'goodness' of figure, and a group technique is presented by which this …

Gestalt principles, or gestalt laws, are rules of the organization of perceptual scenes. When
we look at the world, we usually perceive complex scenes composed of many groups of …

THIS paper attempts to construct a conceptual framework for the precise explication of
Gestalt concepts, such as those of whole, Gestaltquality, and system, as they are employed …

The common theme in the essays of this book is the emergence and sur vival of spatial
structures. How are economic structures created in an otherwise homogeneous …

An integrated method for rotating and rescaling a set of configurations to optimal agreement
in subspaces of varying dimensionalities is developed. The approach relates existing …

In PA van der Helm and ELJ Leeuwenberg (see record 1996-01780-002), the authors
presented a representation model for the goodness, or detectability, of visual regularities …