Lego Escher Illusion

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If you didn't notice at first glance, knights in this lego castle appear to climb infinte stairs. Is it just an optical illusion or pure magic? I would really love to hear your opinnion and comments on how this lego reproduction of Escher's "Ascending" was built? Don't forget to jump inside this article to see original Escher's picture and few more cool pictures. Also visit this link for more real-life impossible structures - [via]!





The Illusion resambles the one where man keeps climbing the stairs:











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  1. Anonymous matt 

    are there any other views of the lego building?

  2. Anonymous nick 

    if you look closely, the disconnect in the stairs is in the top right corner.

  3. Anonymous Brett Pinnix 

    Did u build that? If not then who???

  4. Anonymous Farted 

    Iwould like to build something like that!!!

  5. Anonymous George 

    IRT #2:

    I could be totally wrong, but I don't think it's the top right.

    Labelling the corners as follows:
    A: The 'back' corner, with the big blue roof with the little yellow tip.
    B: The corner with the thin tower on it.
    C: The 'front' corner, that overlooks the balcony with the blue railing.
    D: The corner right above a blue roof that looks like it has a chimney.


    Count the number of lego 'bumps' on the inside edge of each side.
    A-B: 20 (maybe 21)
    B-C: hard to tell... at least 13. In any case, way more than 7
    C-D: 12
    D-A: 7

    Starting at A, and following it around, it looks pretty clear that the disconnect is at A - assuming that these are all right angles, there's no way the stairs can make it back around.

    If you look really closely, you can tell that the lego 'bumps' at the top of DA and bigger than the ones at the 'landing' of A.

    Maybe that's what you meant by 'top right', but to me 'top right' looks like the corner with the thin tower.

  6. Anonymous Hai 

    i dont get how this is so "impossible"

  7. Anonymous latentmicemen 

    I don't get how you don't get how this is so "impossible"

  8. Anonymous Smart 

    I don't think it is impossible ive bent a small lego so they might be bent slightly like a zig-zag. I'm not entirely sure I could be wrong but I think I'm right.

  9. Anonymous Connie 

    I'm sorry to have to be the one to bring this to your attention, but opinion only has 2 n's in it not 3....

  10. Anonymous Psycoskunk 

    That doesn't look all that hard to recreate.

  11. Anonymous Dajpplanet 

    It is obvious that the stairs although acsending the whole flight is tilting downwards. this goes for all flights

    for instance the first stair is at ground level on flight 1

    the first stair is at one step above ground level on flight 2
    the last stair is one step below ground level on flight 2

    the first stair is at ground level on flight 3

    etc etc. I worked that out myself

  12. Anonymous Pandas 

    the stairs arent even. simple as that

  13. Anonymous Sunshine 

    Wow, you have a lot of free time

  14. Anonymous meeow =^_^= 

    that's just amazing

  15. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Here's the web site you need. Wouldn't it be cool if it could be done.
    http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/ascending.html

  16. Anonymous loser 

    how..with the legos?
    and the up..but on the same level..*speachless*
    =^.^=

  17. Anonymous i*is*awesome 

    he makes the Legos pop out to make it look like their stairs.... awesome

  18. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Gee, such a nice pic , but the flaw goes into the 3 step stair (all others are 6/7 steps)


    got how they buit it?

    well, its simple the secret is on the plce of less soldiers

  19. Anonymous NOOOOOOO.... 

    awwww... anonymous ruined it for me...

    There's a flat bit!!!! On the short side!

    or maybe it tilts to make up for the stairs on the rest of the circuit...

    anyway, im now very disappointed. >:(

  20. Blogger George 

    It's the top left, if you zoom in on the picture, you can see the step to the right is very steep




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