(3) Impossible diagrams using the Penrose Triangle

The diagram in Figure 369 was discovered by L.S. Penrose and L.R. Penrose in the middle of the 20th century, and is called the "Triangle of Penrose".

This type is also impossible to construct in three-dimensional space. However, this structure is often used as a trick picture because it can be drawn on a two-dimensional plane.
 
 


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Figure 369: Triangle of Penrose.
Figure 370: "Waterfal" by M.C. Escher.
Figure 371: "Though it is Partly Correct" (from the "Painting Book of Mitsumasa Yasuno").
Figure 372: "Up and Down" (a part), by M.C. Escher.


 

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