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"The Impossible Stairs"

"The Impossible Stairs"

— Thomas Hoppe
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An X-ray of “The Impossible Stairs" would reveal this abstract understructure. I've demonstrated how we can make pictures with nothing more than perfect circles and straight lines, but can we make a picture using only lines? Yes, we can.