簡單圖案的動作範型研究

Abstract

本研究以17種簡單圖案為研究範圍，探討手繪動作的平均範型及其在審美偏好上的意義。範型為現代心理學中形狀辨識與概念建構的重要理論，其定義為：類別中最具代表性的平均者。本研究分為三階段進行研究，首先收集大量簡單圖形的手繪樣本，經過整理、疊合平均與觀察，發現每種簡單圖形平均後皆呈現一特殊的空間分布，此架構很類似以毛筆描繪出來的筆觸，稱之為手繪動作筆畫範型。其次，將這些範型與處理過後的單一個體混雜，使用排序法對一般人進行審美偏好測驗，結果顯示手繪動作筆畫範型具有較高的審美偏好評價。最後，請兩位國畫大師以毛筆實際描繪17種簡單圖案，與手繪動作筆畫範型互相對照比較。以往範型的審美研究多著重於認識論層面，本研究將其拓展至動作面，並發現手繪動作範型與國畫筆觸之間巧妙的關連性。本研究以簡單圖形為研究素材，期望能以其良好的延伸性作為基礎，提供設計人員一個普世共通之審美偏好設計座標。

The aim of this study is to obtain and evaluate the prototypical examplar of the motor schema for depicting simple patterns.

The process of this study can be divided to 3 stages : 1) Extract the prototypical examplar of motor schema for drawing 17 kinds of simple patterns. 2) Evaluate the aesthetic preference for the prototypical examplar of each pattern.. 3) Compare the form of prototypical examplar of motor schema with comparable graphic elements in traditional Chinese painting.

Hand-drawing samples copying the 17 patterns were collected from college students. For extracting the prototypical examplar of a given pattern, samples from all participants were averaged.

A custom image processing protocol was developed to extract the linear version of an average pattern. The preference ranking results of the second stage show that the prototypical examplar is highly preferable. At the third stage, we found that the form of prototypical examplar of motor schema for drawing a pattern is similar to that rendered with the stroke of the traditional Chinese brush. Unlike past studys on prototypical examplar, which were mostly focused on cognitive or perceptual dimensions, we turn our attention to the motor schema in this study. The relationship between our findings and Chinese paintings is also discussed.