An impossible object (also known as an impossible figure or an undecidable figure) is a type of optical illusion that consists of a two-dimensional figure...
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Impossible Object (French: L'Impossible Objet), also known as Story of a Love Story, is a 1973 romantic drama film starring Alan Bates and Dominique Sanda...
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Penrose triangle (redirect from Impossible tri-bar)
tribar, the impossible tribar, or the impossible triangle, is a triangular impossible object, an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be...
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Impossible Object is a 1968 novel written by Nicholas Mosley. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1969. In 1973, a motion picture adaptation starring...
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Mechanical puzzle (section Impossible objects)
and the pot crown. Impossible objects are objects which at first sight do not seem possible. The most well known impossible object is the ship in a bottle...
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The impossible cube or irrational cube is an impossible object invented by M.C. Escher for his print Belvedere. It is a two-dimensional figure that superficially...
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An impossible trident, also known as an impossible fork, blivet, poiuyt, or devil's tuning fork, is a drawing of an impossible object (undecipherable figure)...
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Penrose stairs (redirect from Impossible stairs)
The Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 and later independently...
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Mission: Impossible is a series of American action spy films, based on the 1966 TV series created by Bruce Geller. The series is mainly produced by Tom...
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Shepard elephant (redirect from Impossible elephant)
known as L'egs-istential Quandary or the impossible elephant is an optical illusion, of the type impossible object, based on figure-ground confusion. As...
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Waterfall (M. C. Escher) (redirect from Impossible waterfall)
the structure of two Penrose triangles. A Penrose triangle is an impossible object designed by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934, and found independently by...
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mean when they use the term 'object'. Abstract object Exceptional object Impossible object List of mathematical objects List of mathematical shapes List...
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An impossible bottle is a bottle containing an object that appears too large to fit through the bottle's mouth. The ship model in a bottle is a traditional...
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Belvedere (M. C. Escher) (category Impossible objects)
that is an impossible object, modelled after an impossible cube. In this lithograph, Escher uses two-dimensional images to depict objects free of the...
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Ascending and Descending (category Impossible objects)
by, and is an artistic implementation of, the Penrose stairs, an impossible object; Lionel Penrose had first published his concept in the February 1958...
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Necker cube (category Impossible objects)
edges cross in an inconsistent way is an example of an impossible object, specifically an impossible cube. With the cube on the left, most people see the...
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request an impossible object by name; the prank will be widely known within the peer group as an in-joke, and the person they ask for the object will play...
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Bruce. Many of the puzzles are based on phenomena that occur within impossible objects created by the game engine, such as passages that lead the player...
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Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Harold Pinter) Assassins (1966) Impossible Object (1968; shortlisted for the first Booker Prize in 1969 and filmed in...
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impossible object (co-created with his father Lionel Penrose) Penrose tiling, an example of an aperiodic tiling Penrose triangle, impossible object (co-created...
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around the world. His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry,...
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logical flaw Four-valued logic – Any logic with four truth values Impossible object – Type of optical illusion Category:Mathematical paradoxes List of...
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2019-07-13. Retrieved 28 February 2015. Penrose, LS; Penrose, R. (1958). "Impossible objects: A special type of optical illusion". British Journal of Psychology...
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Anamorphosis (section Impossible objects)
century, artists began to play with perspective by drawing "impossible objects". These objects included stairs that always ascend, or cubes where the back...
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Borromean rings (category Impossible objects)
the drawing, but three-dimensional circular Borromean rings are an impossible object: it is not possible to form the Borromean rings from circles in three-dimensional...
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Apolinère Enameled (redirect from Impossible bed)
conflicting perspective lines, to produce an impossible object. To emphasise the deliberate impossibility of the shape, a piece of the frame is missing...
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infinite possible and impossible worlds, objects are freed from necessarily existing in all worlds, but instead may exist in impossible worlds (where the...
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orthographic projection used for creating a pictorial drawing of an object, where the object is rotated around one or more of its axes to reveal multiple sides...
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player leads the princess Ida through mazes of optical illusions and impossible objects while manipulating the world around her to reach various platforms...
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Optical illusion (section Object)
illusions (or impossible object illusions) are generated by objects that are paradoxical or impossible, such as the Penrose triangle or impossible staircase...
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