[SOLVED] BS6203 Assignment 3

Assignment 3

BS6203

Task 1:

Gestalt is the interplay between the parts and the whole. Kurt Koffka, one of the founding fathers of Gestalt psychology, made a statement about this. He said, “The whole is ‘other’ than the sum of its parts.” This phrase has been translated to the familiar saying, ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’. (e.g. do you see a triangle in the below image) Koffka insisted that the emergent entity is ‘other’ (not greater or lesser) than the sum of the parts. Based on what you understand about Gestalt, what do you think? (Write an one-page reflection)

Task 2:

Find a graph from a publication (of reasonable complexity). Assess based on gestalt’s principles whether the graph is effective. Propose (and maybe redraw a simplified version to illustrate your idea) how it can be made effective.