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goodness of configuration

goodness of configuration

the quality of a shape or form that has high levels of simplicity, regularity, symmetry, or continuity. Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Köhler speculated that the mind tends to perceive more goodness of configuration than may actually exist in a shape. See also closure; gestalt principles of organization; Prägnanz.

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