What defines the minimum number of pieces in your wardrobe? And what defines the maximum? I suggest the minimum is achieved when, under the normal circumstances of your life, you always have something appropriate available to wear; something that suits your face and figure, something that fits your body and the occasion, something hanging there …
I pulled this post out of my first month of blogging, because of its illustration of the Gestalt principle of Figure and Ground; that is, how the eye differentiates between a figure and it’s background. It is reflecting on an event from December 1, 2005; but the principle is no different now, eight years on. …
In light of my recent “old” trauma (stealth pun?), I did a little research into how it is we humans so quickly assess what kind of a person we are seeing. Among the various models I found of recognition, I think feature-matching is most often employed. Feature-matching: search for simple but characteristic features. Undoubtedly, gray …
