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Mind Bending Optical Illusions

In this mind bending optical illusions page featuring some of the best 3D eye tricks online, we showcase the amazing Penrose stairs, also known as the impossible staircase, which is an optical illusion that appears to depict a continuous loop of stairs. Created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 and later popularized by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose, this two-dimensional depiction seems to defy the laws of three-dimensional geometry. The stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend, yet they form an unbroken loop. A person could theoretically climb these stairs forever without ever getting any higher. Can you work out how the illusion is achieved or is it really just mind mending withouta rational explanation?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 




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Another impossible illusion from the work of MC Escher, this one known as Escher's stairs where, regardless of whether you are going up or going down, you still end up in exactly the same place. Fortunately, however far this guy falls, he'll never hit the bottom ... or the top!



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Follow the ball carefully with your eyes. How could the laws of physics cease to work in this illusion?



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Again, this is physically impossible. Have the laws of physics been altered or are your eyes playing tricks on you?



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Study the last of our eye optical illusions on this page carefully. Nothing is taken away and yet something changes. Count how many boulders there are, 9 or 10?