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Impossible Shapes


L Egs-istential Quandary - Roger Shepard
L Egs-istential Quandary - Roger Shepard Can you count the elephant's legs ?

Pencils - Serhiy Grabarchuk
Pencils - Serhiy Grabarchuk An easy task this time. Count the pencils.

Devils Fork - D.H. Schuster, 1964
Devils Fork - D.H. Schuster 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 picture is that you can’t color it.

The Columns (Die Säulen) - Sandro Del-Prete
The Columns - Sandro Del-Prete A variant on the devil's pitchfork. How many columns do you count here ?

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