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Ebbinghaus Illusion — Dynamic Demo

An animated demonstration of the Ebbinghaus (Titchener circles) illusion: a central disk appears larger or smaller depending on the size of the surrounding circles, even when both central disks are physically identical.

This demo animates the surrounding circles so they continuously grow and shrink, making the perceptual size distortion easy to observe in real time.


Prerequisites


Running

# Fullscreen
go run main.go

# Windowed (development / testing)
go run main.go -d

Flags

Flag Default Description
-d off Development mode: windowed 1024×768

Controls

Press Escape or Q to quit.


Note

This is a demonstration, not a data-collecting experiment. No output file is written.