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Impossible Staircase
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On this page you'll find impossible, or rather, endless stairs. Depending on
what direction you're going, you'll be ascending or descending forever. At first sight
it's hard to understand how this is possible. Just remember it's a drawing.
The yellow steps on your side end on top of the green steps. In fact they should
end much lower, around the red steps. The staircase is drawn tilted. although it doesn't seem
that way.
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Waterfall (Waterval) - MC Escher, 1961 |
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Follow the water. Where does it go ? This waterfall recycles the water after driving the water wheel. If you look carefully you see that the construction is made of three impossible triangles. |  View on Allposters.com |  Escher's Waterfall in LEGO Escher's Waterfall made entirely in LEGO blocks. |
Stair Well (Trappenhuis) - MC Escher, 1951 |
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Escher had a lot of fun with the perspective here. He also invented the little centipede creatures, called "Wentelteefjes" in Dutch (a hard to translate pun). He even described how they curled themselves up and rolled along. | | View on Allposters.com |
Ascending and Descending in Lego - Andrew Lipson |
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It's really incredible, but these guys have succeeded in building Eschers Ascending and Descending in Lego. You can read on their site how they've done it. | | Escher's Ascending and Descending in LEGO Escher's Ascending and Descending made entirely in LEGO blocks. |
Impossible Staircase - Roger Penrose, 1958 |
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The impossible stairs reduced to its simplest form. Even now it's hard to see what's impossible about it. Father and son L.S. and Roger Penrose were the first to publish its existence in 1958. |
Ascending, Descending (Klimmen en dalen) - MC Escher, 1960 |
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The building seems to be solid, but when you examine it you see that the monks are ascending or descending forever. Escher didn't invent the endless staircase but he managed to draw it in a very appealing way. The inventors of the endless stairs were L.S. and Roger Penrose in 1958. | | View on Allposters.com |
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