If it works, you'll see something which looks very roughly like the picture below. The white discs are real, the dark regions are the illusions. The dark regions between the red fixation circle and the discs are the spokes illusion, the remaining dark regions are the wakes illusion.

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To our knowledge, these illusions have not been documented before. We have two papers on these illusions.

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