Mental models/Gestalt Principles
Perception & Visual Processing

Gestalt Principles

A set of principles describing how the human visual system organises visual elements into groups or unified wholes. Key principles include proximity, similarity, continuity, closure, and figure-ground.

In plain language

The brain groups things by proximity, similarity, continuity, and closure. Visual organisation communicates relationships before a word is read.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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