Safety pin arrangements 2

<div>I created this figure for the paper titled "Order, Complexity, and Aesthetic Appreciation" (see preprint here: <a href="http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GFDXB">http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GFDXB</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>It illustrates several ways in which order and complexity can be present in images of neatly organized compositions (in this case safety pin arrangements).</div><div><br></div><div>The level of complexity present on a dimension (e.g., size of the elements in a stimulus) influences the order or disorder that can be present on that dimension both quantitatively and qualitatively. Compared to the stimulus with lower complexity in the size of its elements (A), stimuli with higher levels of complexity on that dimension can show a broader range of quantitatively different (dis)order levels: B is much less ordered than C and D. Moreover, they can show a broader range of qualitatively different orderings, even with similar levels of order: C and D are both quite ordered but in very different ways (grouped by size in decreasing order in C and in order of increasing versus decreasing size in D).<br>