1--Various impossible diagrams
 
 

(1) The use of reversal perspective illusion

There are several arts which directly utilize the phenomenon that an apex of a box shape looks like it is coming out or dented. In this case, the drawing methods of the oblique projection or the equal angle projection are used. Here, parallel lines are described as parallel lines.
 
 

Coexistence of two kinds of space recognition.

Figure 364 shows a shape which consists of two desks (one is reversed). However, it is difficult to recognize that each desk exists with the same spatial recognition. A space is stuck from the bottom right to the upper left in the right desk, and another space is stuck from the upper left to the bottom right in the left desk. The directions are exactly opposite. One is a view from a diagonally upper position, and the other is a view seen from a diagonally lower position. It looks to be a strange reverse diagram because the parallelogram in the middle is the common part of both shapes.
 
 


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Figure 363: "Compositional Constelation" by J. Albers. 
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364: Composition based on the principle of reversal perspective illusion.


 

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