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Visuelle Welt: a Windows program for demonstrating visual-perception phenomena.

R Hübner
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The Windows program Visuelle Welt allows the demonstration of various visual phenomena such as geometrical-optical illusions, subjective contours, apparent movement, and Gestalt principles. One of the program's most interesting features is that the illusion-inducing context can be switched off, and in addition for many phenomena parameters can be varied interactively.

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R Hübner. 1997. Visuelle Welt: a Windows program for demonstrating visual-perception phenomena.. https://doi.org/10.1163/156856897x00122

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