Uploaded April 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Impossible Objects for Printing:

Impossible Triangle:
thingiverse.com/thing:547580

Depth Triangle:
thingiverse.com/thing:6513

Penrose Steps:
thingiverse.com/thing:210267

Impossible Cube:
thingiverse.com/thing:1702165

Belvedere:
wikiart.org/en/m-c-escher/belvedere

Ascending & Descending:
wikiart.org/en/m-c-escher/ascending-descending

Principles of Design:
smashingmagazine.com/2014/03/design-principles-visual-perception-and-the-principles-of-gestalt

Visual Curiosities:
plus.maths.org/content/visual-curiosities-and-mathematical-paradoxes

Depth and Perspective:
http://mathstat.slu.edu/escher/index.php/Depth_and_Perspective

Books I read for this:

Principles of Gestalt Psychology:
amazon.com/Principles-Gestalt-Psychology-Kurt-Koffka/dp/8857523934

Eye and Brain:
amazon.com/Eye-Brain-Psychology-Princeton-Science/dp/0691165165

Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions:
amazon.com/Oxford-Compendium-Visual-Illusions/dp/019979460X

Penrose Article:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1958.tb00634.x

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