By Vurdlak on August 3, 2006, with 33 Comments
Peter van Munster sent me this picture yesterday. As you see it’s another impossible object. Colud you construct this thing in real life? Peter wrote: “Hi, I stumbled upon your website and I enjoy it very much. I even have a submission for your Impossible Objects section. It’s a variant on the impossible triangle, this time it’s a rectangle.” If you also have some interesting illusional pictures, feel free to submit them to my email adress (in the sidebar), and if they are good,we’ll publish them online!
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Umm….
It’s impossible to make this in real life right
actually its not, but its VERY hard :P
uh, cool. THATS IMPOSSIBLE! Nice. Swell. Neato. Snazzy. Sweet. and Da-Bomb.
Yes.
It’s been done.
But it alwats amuses me.
It looks like a moebius strip. http://mathforum.org/sum95/math_and/moebius/moebius.html
cool…
cool…
Great shape!
lol thats not a rectangle, its a parallelogram or somthing like that
It’s maybe not impossible, http://www.cuartoderecha.com/?p=275
how is that an illusion?
I was under the impression this was an “Impossible Rectangle”, and not an “Impossibe” one as you’ve stated.
put in a new illusion of the day
this is so cool!!!
i dont see how this i an imposible rectangle???
Here’s another impossible object (animated): http://scaffold.ytmnd.com/
that’s pretty cool – wonder if there are any other shapes that are illusions like this?
cool twist (excuse the pun!) of the original ;)
thats not weird atall
WHOA!
whoa
it’s a trapezoid.
lol actually its a trapezoid, not a rectangle. rectangles have two sets of paralell sides and 90 degree angles.
Neat-o! I haven’t seen this one before! Very nice.
it’s not impossible….it’s so easy…
Simple: it is a mobeious (I know I spelled it wrong) strip. take a piece of paper, give it one 1/2 turn, glue the ends together, and voila! Try to trace your finger around only one side.
wooooooooaaaah freaky
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! That thing is awesome!
can you draw that???? that would be kewl
and i agree with anon
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
awesomness nd yes impoosible i guess lol itz kewl tho
impossible spelld it wrong oops
It’s a Rhombus, not a rectangle.
Good drawing all the same.