Emotion recognition in polygons and curved shapes

Emotion recognition in polygons and curved shapes is described. Attneave-style polygons that have no specific meaning by themselves are generated following an algorithm. Attneave-style closed polygons and curved shapes that are transformed with the spline function from the polygons are used to see whether the two types of shapes have differences in emotion recognition. Subjects were found to recognize emotions in curved shapes more than they did in polygons. The kinds of emotions recognized in each type of drawing were different-subjects recognized mostly anger in polygons but joy in curved shapes. They least recognized anger in curved shapes. There were no specific emotion recognition relationships between the pairs of polygons and their transformed curved shapes.