Illusions
to mess with your mind...
These objects look as if they could exist in three dimensional space,
but take a closer look . . .
Hollow Brick
Garden Fork
3 or 4 shelves?
A figure by Oscar Reutersvard
Tongue or Groove?
Technical Drawing?
Ambihelical Hexnut
Impossible Triangle and the Devils Pitchforks
This figure appears in Belvedere by M C Escher
The Impossible Triangle
A figure by the mathematician L S Penrose
It looks real enough, but look at the third log!
From Impossible Penetrations by Bruno Ernst ~ 1984
The Penrose Staircase
A figure by the mathematician L S Penrose
This was used as the basis for M C Eschers Ascending and Descending
Impossible joinery
Tribar
Ring
Flat 8
Quadrature of the Wheel
Figure by Oscar Reutersvard
Impossible Corner
Impossible Figures
Zenon Kulpa ~ ink and paper ~ 1980
Images of Illusion
From a screen print by Shigeo Fukida ~ 1984
Impossible Two - Bar
Bruno Ernst
Impossible Torus
Building an impossible arch
Four Bar
from Layered Blocks
Oscar Reutersvard
from Two Arrows
Oscar Reutersvard
