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Swedish
artist Oscar Reutersvard is the "father of impossible figures." He was
the first to deliberately make impossible figures (previously they occurred
in artwork unintentionally due to lack of perspective skill). In 1934 he
created the first impossible triangle out of a series of cubes. This was
honored in 1982 on a Swedish stamp (seen on the left). Roger Penrose would
later independently re-create the impossible triangle in its most familiar
form. A few years later he created the first impossible staircase.
Over the years, Reutersvard
has created literally thousands of impossible figures. All of them in Japanese
perspective.
There have been numerous
books published on his works in Swedish, Polish, and Russian.
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