One of the techniques to uncover an abstract reasoning pattern is something I like to call superimposition.

This is when you have exhausted the more common pattern types such as:

• Direction and position
• Colouring
• Size
• Shape transformations.

Superimposition is where:

• A part of the image is drawn out which looks like it's its own image
• Then the other part of the full image is drawn out.
• Together if you superimpose them (there could be more than one), you'll get a full picture of what the image is supposed to be.

It's one which doesn't have an easily detected pattern and relies on you putting one image on top of another. The process itself is the pattern as it's the pattern of putting:

• One image on top of
• One image on top of…

There can be variations to the process of superimposition such as:

• Images not placed 1:1 ratio on top of each other
• Images placed which create a whole new image
• Images that may be placed which certain items or colours don't appear.

Let's look at some images to illustrate this concept:

Source: Wassily Kandinsky,Composition VIII, 1923.

Source:
http://newmediaabington.pbworks.com/w/page/67293527/CHAPTER%204%20%E2%80%94%20Visual%20Elements%20I%3A%20Point,%20Line,%20Plane

Now, let's go through some sample questions:

Example 1

Source:
http://schools.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/schoolsweb/learning/k_6assessments/ss/gatest3.pdf

Example 2

Example 3

Key Rules to remember:

• Superimposition is when images are separated into their smaller parts
• When put together or placed on top of each other, it'll form the full picture.

Now it's time to do your assignment.

1. Download the assignment question here.
2. Print it out or if you want to do it electronically, save it.
3. Complete the questions to it.
4. Then check the solutions on the video below.
5. For the answers in text instead of video, download them here.