Penrose triangle is an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be depicted in a perspective drawing, but cannot exist as a solid object. It was first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The triangle was devised and popularized in the 1950s by psychiatrist Lionel Penrose and his son, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician Sir Roger Penrose.
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Penrose triangle is a triangular impossible object, an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be depicted in a perspective drawing, but cannot exist as a solid object. It was first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The triangle was devised and popularized in the 1950s by psychiatrist Lionel Penrose and his son, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician Sir Roger Penrose.
It is featured prominently in the works of artist M. C. Escher, whose earlier depictions of impossible objects partly inspired it.
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