Impossible Objects Category




(29 votes)

More often than not, I receive emails from fans all over the world. While most of them are complimentary, thanking me for maintaining this site and expressing gratuity for regular content, I also receive a complaint here and then (mostly addressing my English). Questions and suggestions fly in as well. One that stood out lately [...]




(24 votes)

You may accuse me of recycling some already-seen ideas, but I felt obligated to share Jason’s recent submission – one featuring beautiful impossible figures made out of wood. I haven’t had the chance to ask Jason if he made or photographed these himself, but the outcome is either-way perfect! Not sure about you, but I’d [...]




(17 votes)

A blivet, also known as a poiuyt or even more often refereed to as “The Devil’s Fork” is an undecipherable figure, an optical illusion and an impossible object we’ve encountered many times here on Mighty Optical Illusions blog – yet I feel we’ve never given it proper attention, explained how it works nor talked how [...]




(17 votes)

Based on the impact our last Impossible Objects Gallery by Ikemath received, it seems you just can’t get enough of these! Pardon me, if this doesn’t sound right – but it turned out our last gallery went viral in record time! Fortunately, there’s more where this came from. Check the following gallery filled with beautiful, [...]




(25 votes)

Old time viewers will immediately recognise Ikemath’s work in this #impossible objects gallery below. Randomly placed wristwatch serves as a reminder what we are seeing is real, and is probably used as some sort of signature representing Ikemath’s style. Check the gallery below, and see if you can decode how these objects came to be. [...]




(79 votes)
If you’re an old time fan of Mighty Optical Illusions blog you’re already familiar with all kinds of #impossible objects. We’ve featured hundreds of them over the course of seven years, however, after seeing creations of mathematician and professor Kokichi Sugihara, I will think before I use the word impossible going forward. Sugihara’s award-winning creations [...]




(43 votes)

One might easily mistake below objects for half-finished sketches of candle holders, vases, bowls and bottles. However, all of these are real solid pieces of art made entirely from oxidised copper. While intended purely for decoration, they won British designer Maya Selway second prize in the Interior Design Awards at the Interior design biennale in [...]




(35 votes)

As a huge Apple fanboy I’m more than excited about tomorrow’s iPhone 5 event. I just hope it won’t end up being the same thing, only taller. What do you think? In the mean time while we await, here are some impossible structures created and photographed by #Eric_Minnema. Up till now I didn’t have a [...]



