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Explain how Gestalt principles help in understanding visual illusions, particularly those involving ambiguous figures and fictions.

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Explain how Gestalt principles help in understanding visual illusions, particularly those involving ambiguous figures and fictions

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Gestalt Principles

Gestalt principles are rules that describe how we organize visual information into meaningful patterns. They include figure-ground, similarity, proximity, and closure.

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