Penrose triangle

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English[edit]

Penrose triangle

Etymology[edit]

After Roger Penrose (1931-), English mathematician, who popularised it in the 1950s.

Noun[edit]

Penrose triangle (plural Penrose triangles)

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  1. An optical illusion depicting an impossible solid object made of three straight beams of square cross section which meet pairwise at right angles at the vertices of the triangle they form.

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