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Impossible Objects
Impossible objects typically look at first as if they could exist
in reality, but on closer inspection, you find some aspect that just
cannot make sense...
Artists have designed impossible objects, like the classic impossible
triangle. M.C. Escher, created impossible objects, illusions, and
tessellations. Swedish artist, Oscar Reutersvard, known as the father
of impossible figures, was the first to purposely structure impossible
objects.
The impossible triangle design is perhaps the most famous
of all impossible objects. Swedish illustrator Oscar Reutersvärd
was the first to explore and popularize impossible designs.
The theme of impossible objects embraces the gamut of representations
of mathematical constructs, fictional ideas, representational drawings,
etc, which clearly and unambiguously purport to describe, define or
otherwise represent artefacts which are contrary to the known physical
natural laws. Drawings of objects that cannot exist are called
"undecidable figures". A good example of a world defined by impossible
objects is that of the well-known graphical artist M. C. Escher,
whose (for example) symmetrical staircases lead inexorably and
beautifully into infinity.
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