Illusions

to mess with your mind…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following images are kindly supplied By Bert Mathews

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

Meander figure