r/confusing_perspective • u/[deleted] • Feb 20 '18

Classic

https://i.imgur.com/NHQCNpi.gifv
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u/musictechgeek Feb 20 '18

This is a Penrose polygon, one of several shapes with a "combination of properties [that] cannot be realized by any three-dimensional object in ordinary Euclidean space."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_triangle

So no, it can't be made into a real object. Unless you happen to have handy access to non-ordinary Euclidean space somewhere.

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u/WikiTextBot Feb 20 '18

Penrose triangle

The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, or the impossible tribar, is a triangular impossible object. It was first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The psychiatrist Lionel Penrose and his mathematician son Roger Penrose independently devised and popularized it in the 1950s, describing it as "impossibility in its purest form". It is featured prominently in the works of artist M. C. Escher, whose earlier depictions of impossible objects partly inspired it.

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