Visual Illusions Simulator
DESCRIPTION
Explore Gestalt principles and Top-Down processing heuristics. Manipulate the parameters of classic optical illusions (Müller-Lyer, Ponzo, Ebbinghaus) to see how the brain constructs 3D reality from 2D retina images.
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