Professor Kokichi Sugihara, a doctor of engineering at the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences in Tokyo, produces three-dimensional objects that wreak havoc with your sense of spatial perception.
By cunningly exploiting the ways our visual system interprets cues to build a mental model of our surroundings, the precise geometry of Sugihara’s “anomalous objects” will have you doubting the evidence of your eyes.
Originally published by Cosmos as Circles or squares? Depends on perspective
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