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Impossible Perspective
Tree House In Autumn - Rob Gonsalves, 1995 |
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Does this house stand on the ground or in the tree ? |
Relativity (Relativiteit) - MC Escher, 1953 |
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Actually this famous drawing by Escher doesn't belong in this category at all. After all, it's perfectly possible to build a room like this. It could be a bit of a challenge to walk around in it : the inhabitants live in three different gravities. A wall for one inhabitant is a ceiling for another. |  View on Allposters.com |
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The bottom and top of this terrace do not match. If you hold your hand over one of them, everything is just fine. It's the combination which doesn't work. It would work if you assume the terrace is curved, however. |
Futurama - I, Roommate, 1999 |
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In this episode, Fry and Bender are looking for an apartment. While Fry is complaining about it (he doesn't want to pay for an extra dimension he won't use), Bender falls off the stairs ... and he keeps falling of the stairs in all directions. |  Dr. Sarah's Futurama Bender falling off the stairs- bigtime. |
The Simpsons - Couch gag, 1995 |
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Every Simpsons episode has a gag where something special happens when our favorite yellow family is running to their couch. In the episode "The PTA Disbands", the family is running through an Escher-like living room. |
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I'd rather not fall from this swing when it's going forward ... |
The Staircase |
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A nice, colored version of Eschers Relativity. |
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One of my all-time favorites. Peacock has taken Eschers "Up and down" and has made a beautiful castle of it. | | View on Allposters.com |
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Was intended to learn people how to draw in perspective. "Whoever makes a Design without the knowledge of perspective will be liable to such Absurdities as are shewn in this Frontispiece.". |
Labyrinth, 1986 |
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One of the last scenes of this eighties movies is set in a space based on Eschers work ; a girl is trying to find her way over the stairs. Cool ! The man on the right, by the way, is David Bowie. | | IMDB - Labyrinth About Labyrinth on IMDB. |
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Is this a big sandcastle ... Or a huge one ? |
Up and Down (Boven en Onder) - MC Escher, 1947 |
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Escher plays with unusual vanishing points in this drawing. In the middle of the picture, the up/down orientation shifts. In the top half of the picture you are looking up, in the bottom half you are looking down. To make it complete, up and down are showing the same scene. | | View on Allposters.com |
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