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I don't understand the circle analogy at all. I honestly had to pause and figure out if the article had become a satire at that point. I also still don't get w

• matt4077 11y ago
  The 24px are somewhat arbitrary, based on the idea that 18px/1.25 line height are comfortable to read. The circle is trying to illustrate that repetition sometimes feels oddly satisfying to us. I don't think the text does a good job of explaining it. I"m not sure there even is a known explanation, but it's certainly a phenomenon everywhere from dance music to architecture. I'd venture a guess and say the brain actually hates all the pattern matching it has to do and enjoys stumbling on simple rules that explain something.
• scott_s 11y ago
  That example fell flat for me as well. A much better example would be two sets of circles: one where they are all evenly spaced from one another, and another where they have random spacing from one another. I anticipate I would "feel" much better about the orderly spaced group. For me, the given example felt borderline pseudo-scientific.