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Here are some "impossible" objects:
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1. The Freemish crate: See the next one. | |
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1a. Asymmetric Freemish crate: I don't know which is the original. This is drawn about as often as the one above. | |
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2. The Penrose staircase: Often drawn by M. C. Escher. Clockwise is downstairs forever. | |
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3. The tribar: Another impossible object by R. Penrose. It's hard to know how to color it, as the interior becomes the exterior. | |
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4. The tribox: This is just the left end of the tribar, twice. | |
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5. The Penrose triangle: Another famous impossible object by R. Penrose. This is sometimes called a tribar (see #3, above). | |
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6. The ambihelical hexnut: That is what one site on the WWW calls this impossible object. I don't know who invented it. | |
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7. An ambiguous ring: I don't know who invented this. By the way, this is not a Mobius (Möbius) strip. |