Thursday, November 1, 2012

Blog Exercise: Visual Thinking Research

Can you draw three squares in such a way that each of the nine dots shown in the illustration is enclosed in only one region?

Draw this three crossing square pattern with pencil in one continuous line so that you don't take the pencil point off the paper. You aren't allowed to go over any part of the line twice, or even cross it.



To solve these two puzzles there were several mental operations of visual thinking employed. The ones that were utilized were; finding, pattern completion, visual memory, visual reasoning. As we started the puzzles we had to map the pattern in our minds as well as visualize different possible patterns and remember the lines that we had mapped out in our minds. While finding the different paths we had to retain the visual memory of the parts we had solved as well as comparing them to the rules of the puzzles. We also implied visual logic to try and figure out the best starting points and possible paths, given the rules of the second puzzle it was important to start the pattern from the right point in order to complete the puzzle. It was a combination of logic and a visual patern development that helped solve these puzzles


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