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Gestalt: uniform connectedness 0:39
A 39-second explainer of Gestalt: uniform connectedness, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
Uniform connectedness is among the strongest Gestalt grouping cues: elements joined by a line, or enclosed together, are seen as one group - even when they sit far apart or look nothing alike. A visible connection generally beats proximity and similarity, acting at least as strongly as a shared region.
With the connectors off, the dots were just an even row - nothing told you what went with what. Switch them on and three pairs snap into being, though every dot is identical and evenly spaced. That's uniform connectedness: a line binds two things into a unit more strongly than distance or likeness ever could.
