Tagged “perception”
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Akiyoshi Kitaoka's Illusion Pages
The personal site of psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka, famous for rotating-snake style motion illusions, presenting dozens…
All Light, Expanded
An interactive companion to the documentary All Light, Everywhere: scrub through the film's timeline to open articles, q…
BEA.ST
Artist and engineer Jeff Lieberman builds wonder machines and installations that play with perception, like slow-motion…
Best Illusion of the Year Contest 2023 Finalists
The top ten finalists of the 2023 Best Illusion of the Year Contest, with videos and explanations of new visual illusion…
Brighter Than a Cloud
Claire L. Evans tries to describe the shimmering migraine aura called a scintillating scotoma, drawing on art, science a…
Color Precision Test
A color perception test based on CIEDE2000 that measures the smallest color difference you can actually notice and gives…
Colour Literacy Project
Free colour education from the Colour Literacy Project, with clear fundamentals of how colour works, hands-on exercises…
How likely is 'likely'?
A quick quiz asks you to put numbers on phrases like probably, likely and almost certain, then plots your answers agains…
Illusions Index
A curated, research-backed index of visual illusions organized by the perceptual mechanism each one exploits, built by v…
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Living with Perfect Pitch and Synaesthesia
A musician explains from the inside what having perfect pitch and synaesthesia is really like - hearing notes in fridges…
MAR1D
A free experimental game that imagines how Mario truly sees his flat world: in one dimension, as a single line of pixels…
MPI BodyTalk
A Max Planck Institute research demo linking words like curvy or stocky to 3D body shapes, with sliders that morph a mal…
Okhsv and Okhsl
Bjorn Ottosson explains why classic HSV and HSL color pickers are perceptually broken and introduces two better color sp…
Optical Toys
A collection of optical illusions and interactive optical toys by Toms Toys that play tricks on your eyes and show how e…
Realless
A net-art piece that quietly changes small details of its page each time you blink via your webcam, daring you to spot w…
Strobe Illusion
A mind-bending optical illusion page that uses strobing to warp and distort your vision, so you seem to hallucinate. Not…
What Color is Your Name?
Type your name and see it as a synesthete would, each letter turned into its colour based on grapheme-colour synesthesia…
What's My JND?
A colour perception game that finds your just noticeable difference, showing how small a colour change you can actually…
Why Edge Detection Doesn't Explain Line Drawing
A researcher argues that line drawings are not simply traced edges, with examples from art and vision science that chall…
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