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title: "Stereokinetic stimulus"
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Stereokinetic stimulus, stereokinetic depth, stereokinetic illusion is an illusion of depth induced by moving two-dimensional stimuli.
 
A stereokinetic stimulus generates the perception of 3D based on 2D rotational motion. 
A stereokinetic effect is created when flat displays are rotated in the frontal plane and are perceived as having three-dimensional structure.


== History ==
Ernst Mach first reported a depth effect produced by motion in the frontoparallel plane in 1886.
Marcel Duchamp first experimented with stereokinetic depth in 1935.


== References ==