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Grouping in a Crowd Photograph

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In a crowd photograph, figure-ground and proximity determine which people are perceived as a group and which as background.

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Four people standing slightly apart from a dense mass read as a separate group.

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Here proximity and similarity conflict, and proximity wins because the spacing difference is large.

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