These Mindbending Optical Illusions Will Break Your Brain

Kanisza Triangle

In 1955, Italian psychologist Gaetano Kanizsa created a classic example of illusory contours: the Kanizsa Triangle. The above image forces the eye to perceive a white equilateral triangle even though there are no explicit lines to indicate such. Our eyes naturally try to find suggestions of shapes that aren’t really there.

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