The puzzle above was solved using different visual thinking operations explained in In Experiences In Visual Thinking by Robert McKim. In order to solve the puzzle, we had to choose which groups of shapes were bigger in volume, A, B, or C. The first visual thinking operation that I used to help solve this puzzle was filling in. Similar to the Law of Closure of the Gestalt Principles, filling in is using what is provided in the puzzle to infer what will visually complete the image. When comparing the groups of blocks in the puzzle, I tried to visually close the shapes together in order to imagine how they would look combined. Visualizing the result of more than one shape being combined gave me the information needed to compare size with the other groups of blocks. Another visual operation I used was matching, when solving the puzzle I quickly identified each group’s shapes and matched them to together to visually differentiate them to give me the information to choose which set of shapes is largest. Kinesthetic imagery played a part in solving this puzzle as well because motion is being used to visually imagine where the blocks of shapes need to fit into in order to find the solution to the puzzle. I also used my visual memory in order to remember the visual shapes of the puzzle in my mind while going back and forth from the paper to my visual memory. This helped me make my final decision of group C being the largest in volume. Orthographic imagination was used as well during the solving of this puzzle because imagining the shapes rotated played an important part in helping to visually connect the shapes.
To solve this puzzle, there must be four pairs of interlinked hearts found. Visual operations from, In Experiences In Visual Thinking by Robert McKim and one law from The Gestalt Principle were used while solving this puzzle. The Law of Proximity was used to navigate through the many different hearts because the solver is looking for the specific hearts that are linking. When first looking at the puzzle, it’s a little challenging to differentiate the linked hearts with the non-linked hearts because the brain categorizes all the hearts together since they are all very close together in the image. Finding is used in order to help solve the puzzle because a certain pattern of the locking hearts is needed to be found within the image and is actively remembered visually while looking through the many hearts. Categorizing is also being used to solve this puzzle because in order to distinguish which hearts are interlocking, active pattern seeking is used to recognize common features of interlocking hearts and categorizing them into images that contain the solution to the puzzle. The final visual operation that helped solve this puzzle was kinesthetic imagery because motion was used in order for the brain to trace the separate hearts to reveal which of the hearts were connected to each other.
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