stackyFACTSArrange three Pac-Man shapes facing each other, and you will distinctly see a bright white triangle floating in the empty space between them. The Kanizsa triangle proves that your mind is so desperately terrified of incomplete data that it will literally hallucinate solid, glowing geometry just to make the picture make sense.
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