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The
Penrose stairs is an
impossible object devised by
Lionel Penrose and his son
Roger Penrose and can be seen as a variation on his
Penrose triangle. It is a two-dimensional depiction of a staircase in which the stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet form a continuous loop, so that a person could climb them forever and never get any higher. This is clearly impossible in three dimensions; the two-dimensional figure achieves this paradox by distorting perspective.
The best known example of Penrose stairs appears in the
lithograph Ascending and Descending by
M. C. Escher, where it's incorporated into a
monastery where several
monks ascend and descend the endless staircase.
The staircase had also been discovered previously by the Swedish artist
Oscar Reutersvärd, but neither Penrose nor Escher were aware of his designs.
In terms of
sound, the
Shepard tone is a similar illusion.
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