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  2. Penrose stairs - Wikipedia

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    The Penrose stairs appeared twice in the movie Inception. This paradoxical illusion can only be realized in the dream worlds of the film. In the film, the hero descends the stairs fleeing from a guard. In the real world, the hero should always be in front of the villain throughout this chase.

  3. Schroeder stairs - Wikipedia

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    Schroeder stairs can be perceived in two ways, depending on whether the viewer considers A or B to be the closer wall. Schroeder stairs (Schröder's stairs) is an optical illusion which is a two-dimensional drawing which may be perceived either as a drawing of a staircase leading from left to right downwards or the same staircase only turned upside down, a classical example of perspective ...

  4. Ascending and Descending - Wikipedia

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    While most two-dimensional artists use relative proportions to create an illusion of depth, Escher here and elsewhere uses conflicting proportions to create the visual paradox. [ 1 ] Ascending and Descending was influenced by, and is an artistic implementation of, the Penrose stairs , an impossible object ; Lionel Penrose had first published ...

  5. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face. Hybrid image: A Hybrid image is an optical illusion developed at MIT in which an image can be interpreted in one of two different ways depending on viewing distance. Illusory contours

  6. Relativity (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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    Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953.The first version of this work was a woodcut made earlier that same year. [1]

  7. The optical illusion hidden in the 'Mona Lisa' explained - AOL

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    Art historians say Leonardo da Vinci hid an optical illusion in the Mona Lisa's face: she doesn't always appear to be smiling. There's question as to whether it was intentional, but new research ...

  8. M. C. Escher - Wikipedia

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    His first print of an impossible reality was Still Life and Street (1937); impossible stairs and multiple visual and gravitational perspectives feature in popular works such as Relativity (1953). [e] House of Stairs (1951) attracted the interest of the mathematician Roger Penrose and his father, the biologist Lionel Penrose. In 1956, they ...

  9. This train track optical illusion has derailed the entire ...

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    In this illusion, two figures that are identical (i.e. the two train track segments) appears to be different sizes while lying perpendicular to each other on a flat surface -- the lower one ...