Triângulo de Kanizsa
Triângulo de Kanizsa
Percepção de elementos
(organização da informação garantindo uma imagem "completa")
Triângulo de Kanizsa
The strange triangle that forms the background of many of our pages may seem odd at
first sight. Called a Kanizsa triangle, it is an essential part of the Gestalt theory of
perception: a holistic view of how the eye works opposed to a purely reductionist analysis of
vision.
It
may seem self-evident that a triangle is there. But look again... why do you think you see
a triangle? There are no lines to indicate a triangle, no explicitly enclosed space to
view. Yet the circles marking the corners of the triangle make it readily apparent what we
are to perceive. Only by a holistic vision--seeing the three separate "pac-men"
as parts of a single whole--do we perceive a triangle. The triangle--with its intriguing
unity of parts and wholes--is a profound metaphor for the nature of our intellectual
journey. Like a Gabo sculpture,
it is constantly forcing us to rethink the way we perceive our world. It is at once static
and dynamic, spinning and centered; an idea that breaks out from the page and draws you
into its infinite loops.
