Laws of seeing

Introduction to the English translation

Preface

Introduction: overview of the history of visual theory

1 Ambiguous figures in our daily environment

2 Visible and invisible forms

3 Of groups and borders

4 Developmental stages in shape formation

5 Gestalt laws serving camouflage

6 Brightness and spatial form

7 Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of perspective drawings

8 Form and substance of seen things- the Prägnanz tendency

Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of brightness

10 Yet another important camouflage principle

11 The wandering moon

12 Laws of seeing and laws of nature.