Endless Stairs

The Penrose stairs, also dubbed as the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose. It can be seen as a variation on the Penrose triangle. It is a two-dimensional depiction of a staircase in which the stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet form a continuous loop, so that a person could climb them forever and never get any higher. This is clearly impossible in three dimensions; the two-dimensional figure achieves this paradox by distorting perspective.

The best known example of Penrose stairs appears in the lithograph Ascending and Descending by M. C. Escher, where it is incorporated into a monastery where several monks ascend and descend the endless staircase.

The staircase had also been discovered previously by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd, but neither Penrose nor Escher were aware of his designs.

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[spinnenente]

strictly speaking its not an optical illusion cuz we don't trick the brain to see anything that isn't there or see something different from what it is

its a paradox cuz it looks real because the high and low point match up nicely

[razvakid92]

@spinnenente it's all about the point of view. it's the same for the impossible triangle & cube. but you're right, it can't be considered an optical illusion. :)

[BraDRoBBo]

I tried to make this on minecraft and obviously failed

[aftrFX]

arthur: paradox

[CaptainEnderman]

@BraDRoBBo me2

[TheKlaustro]

im not sure... but maybe it could be possible to make it if it's ground pieaces aren't straight... so it... pulls over a bit... and then have the stairs.... ugh nah

[MRswavgav]

look at it closely and the stairs are really just flat but drawen really good

[slogery]

thumbs up if you got boared and put the snow butten on

[wiimanic1]

INCEPTION...



[LOL4618]

great

[TheMarioMario54321]

what building is that????????????