Figure 10. Otsu Segmentation Of The Real (Left) And The Impossible (Inverted) Figure (Right)
Maya Dimitrova · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2015
This regularity of cognition is about the geometry of the internal representation of the external world, which somehow most often is approximating the Euclidean space according to L.M. Vekker (1976). In his theory of the Gestalt in perception and thinking, Vekker postulated that sensations, perceptions and imagination are in a constant process of unfolding to match and take the exact places of the physical objects in the external environment. The geometry of the internal representation of the world is abstract and experiential at the same time. The experiential aspect of the process of immediate cognition can be seen by viewing figure 9. Figure 9 right is, at first glance, a quite convincing example of stairs similar to the stairs on the left. Even the context (the cat on the ceiling) is noticed on a second scan. The inverted stairs are more likely to remind us of Escher’s works than, for example, the normally positioned ones. This effect supports the idea of the semantic depth of spatial learning, relating the experience of art to perceiving of Gestalts.