Assimilation of information from dot and matrix patterns.

Klemmer, E. T.; Frick, Frederick C.

doi:10.1037/h0060868

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“…Several such classifications have recently been developed. Researchers have investigated the complexity of stimuli (Attneave, 1957;Berlyne, 1958), the amount of information or redundancy in patterns (Attneave, 1954(Attneave, , 1955Klemmer & Frick, 1953), and the number VISUAL SYMMETRY 291 of alternatives that patterns possess (Garner, 1962(Garner, , 1966(Garner, , 1970Garner & Clement, 1963). In many of these studies, the importance of symmetry has been noted, but not adequately investigated.…”

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A quantitative approach to the study of visual symmetry

Szilâgyi

Baird

1977

Perception & Psychophysics

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An experiment was conducted to explore the quantitative relationship between "goodness" and the amount of symmetry in visual designs. Subjects arranged items in one, two, and three dimensions in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Each design was analyzed to determine its amount of symmetry, and the percent of subjects who created designs having each possible degree of asymmetry was calculated. Perfect symmetry was the most common condition for all three dimensions. Moreover, the goodness of patterns was inversely related to the quantitative degree of asymmetry.

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A quantitative approach to the study of visual symmetry

Szilâgyi

Baird

1977

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…In general the practice has been to construct a matrix of some given size and then to determine randomly which cells are to be filled. Patterns of dots were constructed in this fashion by Kaufmann, et al, (19), French (16), and Klemmer and Frick (20), for example. Attneave used the same approach, including the introduction of a symmetry factor, in a study of the effect of redundancy on memory for patterns (4).…”

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The quantitative study of shape and pattern perception.

Attneave¹,

Arnoult²

1956

Psychological Bulletin

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There is a need to extend the traditional psycho-physical methods to include the analysis of shapes or patterns. Heretofore studies designed to determine how form perception is influenced by various extrinsic factors have employed arbitrarily designed stimuli. This paper proposes several methods "for drawing "random' patterns and shapes from clearly defined hypothetical populations, to which experimental results may then be generalized with measurable confidence." 27 references.

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“…Garner (1962) and Miller (1956) compared data obtained by Hake and Garner (1951) on channel capacity for judgments of position on a line with data obtained by Klemmer and Frick (1953) and Osborne, Quastler, and Tweedell (1955) on channel capacity for judgments of position within a two-dimensional area. Information transmission in the unidimensional study was 3.2 bits and in the bidimensional studies about 4.4 bits-or only about 2.2 bits per component dimension.…”

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