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April 25, 2006 by Vurdlak | Share  

Few days ago I checked my mailbox and noticed three of our readers submitted and suggested Escher’s Waterfall to our optical illusions database. We love Escher, and have posted his work in the paste: “Staircase”, “Ascending”, “Tribute To MC Escher”, “Escher’s Google Earth”… Thanks to Wong Wen Yen here we have high-res picture of Impossible Waterfall. But wait… That’s not all! If you jump inside this article you will notice a video clip of Escher’s Waterfall masterfully recreated by Shigeo Fukuda. The water really seems to flow uphill in this small scale model. Previously I posted “Underground Piano”, also done by Fukuda. Check it. But first, jump inside this post to see Waterfall video clip sent to us by Jason Ahn and Eddie Tio.


Eschers Waterfall Contructed in 3D
“Everything seems to be in place, yet we seem to be in a strange universe where water flows uphill. What is wrong with it? Well, nothing is wrong with it. It is just our minds trying to equate the lines Escher drew with what our senses perceive of the real world.”

Here’s another videoclip of “Waterfall” I found on YouTube. The only difference is that this one wasn’t constructed in real life, but instead made digitally. Never the less explantions are here…

Comments

18 Responses
  1. cool says:

    cool

  2. Hai says:

    oh i get it now…

  3. Sher-Bear says:

    WOW!

  4. kiki says:

    i still dont get it where does the water come from i mean they just cant stay there

  5. Mav says:

    WOW!! This is really clever…

  6. Bippy says:

    ahh, clever, now i get it

  7. Pandas says:

    that is just awesome. i love youtube. i love this site too.

  8. klimax says:

    omg i have that exact painting in my house for the longest while. :s

  9. meeow =^_^= says:

    i love that

  10. Eclipse says:

    Yay! He’s my friend, I shall keep this page forever an’ ever.

    *twitch*

  11. The Smart one. says:

    Wow, ive seen it a million times before, but i just love it. Anyone notice the garden near the little dude? It makes the affect that you might be underwater.. adding a whole new level to the picture. I hail Escher! This picture is everywhere in the Calgary Science Centre.

  12. BigEscherFan30 says:

    I have ALWAYS enjoyed looking @ Escher’s artwork!!! I LOVE his stuff!

  13. Anonymous says:

    that is cool i dident think that is how u do it

  14. Anonymous says:

    yeah, a great illusion. im a big fan of escers work

  15. Anonymous says:

    nice but the first vid is removed “due to terms of violation”

    It sure looks impossible thou

    ~Alyssa

  16. i have a pic of dat in ma skool. but its still cool!

  17. fan says:

    it appears the water is moving away, yet it ends up at the same place it started.

  18. Lultrain says:

    my house looks like that

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