paradoxes

In English class we are viewing the Tao and its paradoxes. A paradox is a statement that contradicts itself within the statement. During class the teacher showed us multiple examples of visual paradoxes, and for homework he gave us the job to look for our own images. A visual paradox is like the one on top it is an image that shows something impossible or irrealist. Usually it is an optical illusion. The 3 images below are great examples of visual paradoxes: the peel of the heads, the stair in the middle of a path, and the cube.

This image I liked it a lot because it was a paradox in multiple ways. As I see the images it is a peeled head. The first paradox is that it is impossible to peel a head. The second paradox is that the peel doesn't have a beginning or an end; it keeps going around and around. Also it is the head of a man on one side and of a woman on the other so it is impossible. Also the peel is crossed on the forehead of both heads, which is impossible, unless it is a Mobius band.

This 3d animated image is a very funny paradox it has multiple of them. First the path by which this guy is walking is leveled it is parallel to the ground. But suddenly there is a stair that doesn’t lead anywhere but to the beginning of the path, physically this is impossible. I find it clever of the author to place the canal around this so that you can know that the path is really parallel to the floor.

This image is one of the most famous visual paradoxes. It is a cube made only by its edges. But the trick here is that one of the edges is overlapping another. As you can see in the image it is physically impossible. Even though it is a 3d drawing it is physically impossible.

The 3 images on top are great examples of visual paradoxes: the peel of the heads, the stair in the middle of a path, and the cube.