Here's what the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvard did. In 1934, he got himself a pen and paper and drew four cubes, like this. He called this final version "Impossible Triangle of Opus 1 No. 293aa." I ...

Science tells us the object you see here cannot exist in the real world. It’s an illusion. An Escherian ruse. Ulrich Schwanitz says, “Pfft.” Now, normally, when people say they’ve designed a 3-D ...