gestalt.graphics

No. I · Reification

The triangle that isn’t there

Three notched discs and three open angles. Devised by Gaetano Kanizsa in 1955 to demonstrate that perception abhors a void, nothing else is drawn. Yet the mind constructs the missing contours, projecting a white triangle brighter than the ground itself.

After Gaetano Kanizsa, 1955

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