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No. III · Common fate

A cat made of motion

Rooted in Wertheimer’s law of common fate and Johansson’s 1973 point-light experiments. When twenty-two dots move in unison, the mind instantly reads a walking cat. Even masked by twenty-four points of random noise, the form persists. Arrest the motion, and only scattered dots remain.

After Max Wertheimer, 1923 · Gunnar Johansson, 1973

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