Visual Communications all milestone, Complete Questions & Answers (summer 2022)

You passed this Milestone 1 13 questions were answered correctly. 12 questions were answered incorrectly. 1 question was skipped. These were marked incorrect. 1 Which characteristic is a component of the line element in visual design?  Length  Volume  Balance  Shape RATIONALE Line is an element of visual design defined by length and direction. CONCEPT Line 2 Why is proximity a valuable design principle?  It can enhance viewers' perception of grayscale and unity in a design.  It can influence and guide how viewers perceive and navigate a design.  It can help to establish whether an element is the foreground or background. RATIONALE Proximity is a valuable design principle because it can influence and guide how viewers perceive and navigate a design. The distance between elements often provides a visual pathway, similar to leaving a trail of crumbs, which helps guide viewers through the design. CONCEPT Proximity 3 The part of the retina that processes color is called which of the following?  Cone  Rod  Visual cortex  Optic nerve RATIONALE Rods are the long, thin light-sensitive parts of the retina that process night vision, while the optic nerve is the tissue connecting the retina to the visual cortex in the back of the brain. CONCEPT How We See 4 Which one of the following characteristics is NOT related to shape?  Width and height  Potential to be curvy  Identifiable boundary  Three-dimensional RATIONALE A shape has an identifiable boundary, the dimensions of width and height and can even have curvy lines. What a shape does not have is the thirddimension of depth. CONCEPT Shape