Mathematicians Created an ‘Impossible’ Shape That Shouldn’t Exist
An impossible object is something that looks realistic when drawn but can’t exist in real life. Dutch artist M.C. Escher is famous for depicting, for instance, staircases and waterfalls that are impossible to build in three dimensions. Now mathematicians Robert Ghrist and Zoe Cooperband have created a mathematical classification system for visual paradoxes, and have used their framework to invent an impossible object that breaks reality in novel ways.
