M.C. Escher’s two-dimensional renderings of impossible feats of architecture are endlessly fascinating to look at, precisely because they could not exist as three-dimensional objects. Or could they?

On the printed page of an art book or magazine, Escher’s work acquires a hard, mechanical coldness that exaggerates certain tendencies in his work, principally his overpowering search for visual order ...

With a mathematical precision, M.C. Escher played with perspective, making the impossible seem more than plausible. Water runs uphill. Staircases have no set path up, down or, even upside-down. A pair ...

Study the image above closely. You’ll notice that physically it is an impossible object, yet this is a screenshot of full-motion video. The clip after the break shows a gentleman pouring water into ...

During his lifetime, famed graphic artist M.C. Escher explored the concepts of mathematical infinity and impossible geometry in a series of wood prints, lithographs, and mezzotints. One thing Escher ...

In an impossible figure, seemingly real objects—or parts of objects—form geometric relations that physically cannot happen. Dutch artist M. C. Escher, for instance, depicted reversible staircases and ...

Oxymora is a typeface that evokes the twisting, non-Euclidian geometry of MC Escher’s artwork Oxymora is a typeface that evokes the twisting, non-Euclidian geometry of MC Escher’s artwork Actually I ...

PUT a newborn chick in front of a print of Escher’s impossible staircases and it just might scratch its head. The vertebrate brain appears to be hard-wired at birth to comprehend a 3D world – and is ...

The late Dutch artist M.C. Escher is perhaps best known for his tessellations that fool the eye, like “Sky and Water I,” where birds in the air trade off negative space with fish underwater. But there ...