Thursday, July 12, 2007
Gestalt jokesters
Has anyone noticed a problem with the cartoon on page 112 of the textbook entitled "Gestalt jokesters test an illusion"? If the firemen were only holding up truncated circles, then the bottom of the building where it touches the ground, and the fireman's legs should be visible. Perhaps I've been in engineering far too long and have begun to expect consistency even in humour.
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I think that fireman's legs aren't visible because of the illusion of the "good figure" (the "square" that appears within the truncated circle) as something "solid". I drew in legs in the picture, and based on the angle of that fireman, it looks odd to me (the legs distract me from the square illusion). But then again I'm coming from the psychologist's perspective!
What do other people think of this cartoon?
What a funny thing to notice. I see the problem from the perspective that the firemen are only holding circles. But the legs would definitely obscure the illusion since the white square should be seen as a solid object. Perhaps the cartoonist should have chosen something different...
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