Meaning of Penrose staircase | Babel Free

Definitions

An impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to be one.

Examples

“Can you make a fractal equivalent of the “Auditory Penrose Staircase,” the illusion of a steadily descending tone, by zooming in on a fractal as it branches?”

“They are the inventors of the famous "Penrose staircase" that goes round and round without getting higher; Escher depicted it in his lithograph "Ascending and Descending."”

“This pitch paradox has been used to accompany numerous videos of bouncing balls, stick men, and other objects traversing the Penrose staircase, with each step accompanied by a step along the Shepard scale.”

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