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Sugihara's winning award for the "Best Illusion of the Year Contest 2020" is available at your home!
The direction of the stairs is the opposite once reflected in the mirror.
(Note from Kokichi Sugihara)
A traditional Schröder staircase is a 2D picture having two interpretation, a staircase seen from above and that seen from below, and the second interpretation can be perceived easily if we turn the picture upside-down. The present 3D object also has two interpretations, both of which are staircases seen from above, and the interpretations switch from one to the other when we rotate the object by 180 degrees around the vertical axis.
What you receive is paper craft kits, it means you build the impossible object by yourself… Oh, it sounds difficult? Worried about complicated steps? Maybe taking 2-3 days to finish up?
All answers for those questions are “NO”! No worry at all. All parts are precut on the sheet, so scissors are not required to detach from the sheet, just provide your own glue stick to assemble.
(NOTE)
- Please provide your own mirror.
Who is Kokichi Sugihara?
Kokichi Sugihara is a Japanese mathematician and artist known for his three-dimensional optical illusions that appear to make marbles roll uphill, pull objects to the highest point of a building's roof, and make circular pipes look rectangular.
His illusions, which often involve videos of three-dimensional objects shown from carefully chosen perspectives, won first place at the Best Illusion of the Year Contest in 2010, 2013, 2018, 2020 and second place in 2015 and 2016.
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