 Pictures of objects you can't make. |
Real impossible triangle - Mathieu Hamaekers |
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 A real picture of an impossible triangle. How did he do that ? Click on the picture and see how it looks from another angle.
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| Wooden triangle - |
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 A photograph of someone holding an impossible construction of triangles. Note how smart this picture is made : the big, impossible triangle is made from smaller triangles which in turn are impossible. There obviously are holes in the model but in this case they are hard to imagine.
Number of ratings : 35. |
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| Gameboard - |
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 Twisted gameboard in the same fashion as Del-Pretes chessboard.
Original : Impossible Chess Set
Related : The Terrace
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| Italian Restaurant Illusion - Gianni A. Sarcone |
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 Find the five errors.
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::  1995 |
| Open Cube - |
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| - Oscar Reutersvärd |
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| Cube in blue - Monika Buch |
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 Very nice variation on the impossible cube, especially the way how two cubes are in the middle of two sides.
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:: 1976 |
| Impossible Chess Set, Das gekrümmte Schachbrett - Sandro Del-Prete |
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Derived : The Terrace :: Gameboard
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:: 1975 ::  Poster |
| A slightly difficult interlocking wood puzzle - Mitsumasa Anno |
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| Impossible triangle mirrored - Bruno Ernst |
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 A real picture taken of an impossible triangle. You can see in the mirror how this is done.
Original : Impossible triangle explanation
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| Opus, Opus - Oscar Reutersvärd |
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 Reutersvärd invented this shape by accident while working on the star in the center.
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:: 1934 |
| Wooden box - |
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 A woman is looking at an impossible wooden box with a puzzled expression on her face.
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The quadrature of the wheel, Das unmögliche Rad - Sandro Del-Prete |
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 At first glance it seems that this man has made a very solid construction. I doubt, however, that you can make the same in your hobby room.
Derived : Quad Wheel
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| Impossible bed, Apolinère enameled - Marcel Duchamp |
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 This was a commercial for Sapolin, a paint brand. Duchamp changed the title for this friend Apollinaire and he made the bed look impossible. The bed is a separate tin plate attached to cardboard.
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:: 1916 |
| Impossible wheel - |
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| Impossible cube construction - |
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 A worker is constructing an impossible cube.
Original : Impossible cube drawing
Related : Impossible cube
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| The impossible triangle - Oscar Reutersvärd |
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 The one and only impossible triangle ; this shape was the inspiration for an innumerable amount of impossible artworks ; including those made by Escher.
Derived : Impossible triangle explanation
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:: 1934 |
| Bird cage - Jos de Mey |
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 Impossible birdcage.
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| Impossible cube - |
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 A photograph of an impossible cube. All pictures taken of an impossible object have one thing in common : it only "works" from ONE point of view, called "the Ames transformation". When you take a picture from another point of view the object would look strange and twisted, but not impossible.
Original : Impossible cube drawing
Related : Impossible cube construction
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| Three candles - Sandro Del-Prete |
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 How many candles are there ?
Original : The impossible fork
Related : Roman column • The columns • L'Egs-istential Quandary • fork.jpg • Columns • Dinosaur
Number of ratings : 8. |
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| Impossible Nature Morte - Gianni A. Sarcone |
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 Three impossible things : two books become three books, the vase is in front of the green jar but behind the books, and the red pot has a strange bottom.
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:: 1998 |
| Impossible Square - |
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| Impossible cube drawing - |
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 A drawing of an impossible cube.
Derived : Impossible cube :: Impossible cube construction
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| Shelf - Frans Erens |
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 The shelf is okay. The support is okay. But the combination of the two is not possible.
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:: 1985 |
| The impossible fork - |
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 This is a drawing of an impossible fork. It's a very basic form of impossible images. Also known as "Schuster's conundrum" or the "Devil's fork". Typical for this kind of impossible image is that you can’t color it.
Derived : Roman column :: Three candles :: The columns :: L'Egs-istential Quandary :: fork.jpg :: Columns :: Dinosaur
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| Quad Wheel - Sandro Del-Prete |
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 This is a simplified version of the "wheel" in the orginal drawing.
Original : The quadrature of the wheel
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| The impossible christmas tree, De onmogelijke kerstboom - Jos de Mey |
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:: 1987 |
| Impossible triangle explanation - Oscar Reutersvärd |
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 For those of you who do not understand why the impossible triangle IS impossible : here is a drawing of how the construction would look with two of the three connections made. You can see that the third connection is not possible.
Original : The impossible triangle
Derived : Impossible triangle mirrored
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Impossible pencils - Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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 Are there two pencils . . . Or three ?
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| Section of a cube - Mitsumasa Anno |
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| Truncated Tetrahedron - |
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 It may be hard to see why the figure is impossible ; it will be more understandable when you look at the second picture where you can see where the sides would end.
Number of ratings : 11. |
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| Animated impossible cube - |
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 That's right ! An animated impossible cube. If you thought the cube itself was bad enough, you won't get over this one !
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| Block, Blok - Dirk Huizer |
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Number of ratings : 9. |
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:: 1984 |
| Improbable screws and washers - Gianni A. Sarcone |
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| Telescope - Govert Schilling |
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 A telescope. An impossible one. Or it wouldn't have been on this page, of course.
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| Nested Squares - Bruno Ernst |
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| Racketholder for an outdated player, Racketholder for an outdated player - Jos de Mey |
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Number of ratings : 6. |
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:: 1987 |
| Thiéry's figure - |
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 These cubes share a common side.
Number of ratings : 5. |
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