Christopher Nolan's film Inception features a classic optical illusion called the Penrose staircase, which folds back upon itself in space. World-renowned puzzlemaker and LEGO constructor Eric ...

There’s no way that’s feasible, right? These familiar steps, called the Penrose stairs, are a type of “impossible object”—a construction that could not exist in reality even though its ...

It the audio version of the Penrose stairs optical illusion which depicts a ‘continuous staircase’ in which the stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend. The sound of the ...

Similar to M.C. Escher's "Ascending and Descending" and the Penrose stairs, which are both two-dimensional renderings, the illusion by Kokichi Sugihara invites the viewer to first interpret the 3D ...

When you look at an optical illusion, you might feel it scratching ... But if you stare long enough at M.C. Escher's never-ending Penrose stairs, it will disorient you into oblivion.

This tricky visual illusion is also known as a Penrose stair, named after its ...

It’s the aural equivalent of the Penrose stairs (which you might recognize ... When played on a keyboard, it gives the illusion of greater and greater speed; the pod appears unstoppable.

Our obsession with stairs and the level of illusion that they create in architecture perhaps stems from the way that they’re able to twist the optics and perceptions of space. We understand that ...