Science tells us the object you see here cannot exist in the real world. It’s an illusion. An Escherian ruse. Ulrich Schwanitz says, “Pfft.” Now, normally, when people say they’ve designed a 3-D ...
In an impossible figure, seemingly real objects—or parts of objects—form geometric relations that physically cannot happen. Dutch artist M. C. Escher, for instance, depicted reversible staircases and ...