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Visual Properties of Form, Primary Shapes

The document discusses the visual properties of form, including shape, size, color, texture, position, orientation, and visual inertia. It defines each property and gives examples. The primary shapes - circle, triangle, and square - are also described in terms of their geometric properties and how they are perceived visually as stable or unstable depending on their position.

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Visual Properties of Form, Primary Shapes

The document discusses the visual properties of form, including shape, size, color, texture, position, orientation, and visual inertia. It defines each property and gives examples. The primary shapes - circle, triangle, and square - are also described in terms of their geometric properties and how they are perceived visually as stable or unstable depending on their position.

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LECTURE : 02

(VISUAL PROPERTIES OF FORM, PRIMARY SHAPES)


Visual Properties of Form:
Seven properties

•Shape, Size, Color, Texture, Position, Orientation and Visual Inertia


1. Shape
• The characteristics outline or surface configuration of a particular form.
• Shape is the principal aspect by which we identify and categorize forms.

2. Size
• The physical dimensions - length, width and depth of a form.
• While these dimensions determine the proportions of a form, its scale is
determined by its size relative to other forms in its context.
3. Color
• Hue, saturation and tonal value of any form.
• Color is the attribute that most clearly distinguish a form from its
surrounding.
• It also affect the visual weight of a form.

4. Texture
• The visual and tactile quality of the surface of a form.
• It determines the degree to which the surface of a form reflects or
absorbs incident light.
5. Position
• The location of a form relative to its environment or the visual field within which it is
seen.

6. Orientation
• The direction of form relative to the ground plane, the compass points, other
forms,or to the person viewing the form.

7. Visual inertia
• The degree of concentration or degree of stability of a form.
The visual inertia of a form depends on its geometry as well as its orientation relative
to the ground plane, the pull of gravity and our line of sight.
All of these properties of form are in reality affected by the condition
under which we view them.

•A changing perspective or angle of view presents


different shapes or aspects of a form to our eyes.

•Our distance from a form determines its apparent size.

•The lighting condition under which we view a form


affects the clarity of its shape and structure.

•The visual field surrounding a form influences our


ability to read and identify it.
Primary shapes:
Circle
Triangle
Square
Circle:
• A plane curve every point of which is equidistant from a
fixed point within the curve
• Centralized, introvert, stable, self-centering
Triangle:
A plane figure bounded by three sides and having three angles.
When rest on its sides-----stable
When stand on its vertices---stable (if equilibrium) or unstable (if tend to fall)
Square:
• A plane having four equal sides and four right angles.
• Pure, rational, static, no preferred direction.
• Rectangles are the variation of square------changing L,W,H.
• When rest on sides----stable
• When standing on its corners-----dynamic

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