Penrose triangle
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]After Roger Penrose (1931-), English mathematician, who popularised it in the 1950s.
Noun
[edit]Penrose triangle (plural Penrose triangles)
- 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.