Beside an ant, the exact same coffee cup looks gigantic.
Slide Intensity to toggle context comparison.
Contextual Size Bias
Relativity in your eyes: why size is never absolute.
🧐 What do you see?▼
Look at the two coffee cups. One appears tiny, while the other looks like a giant monument.
When placed next to a Skyscraper, the cup is perceived as "pocket-sized." When placed next to an Ant, the cup is perceived as "building-sized."
🧠 Why this works▼
Our visual system is terrible at judging absolute scale. Instead, it relies on Relative Size Cues from the environment.
By providing an anchor (the Ant or the Cityscape), your brain automatically calculates the dimensions of the cup to fit the logical narrative of the scene.
🧪 Try variations▼
Slide the Intensity control to swap the context. Notice how the cup seems to physically "grow" or "shrink" in your mind, even though the pixels remain identical.