the mapping from hierarchical and multiscalar relationships into visual perception is showed as the visual propensities in analyzing and organizing the surroundings. The simplest relationships are local position and orientation relationships
and their corresponding visual propensities are the visual position and orientation orders. At phenomenological level
position and orientation orders are explicitly expressed in an energy model. Several K kinds of perceptual binding emerge as global solutions of this energy model. A general theory for perceptual organization including visual position and orientation orders
can be used to consider the other clues for perceptual organization
such as closeness
similarity
symmetry and so on. This theory provides a general approach to visual representation and learning.