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M. C. Escher's Waterfall
Waterfall (M. C. Escher)
Waterfall is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M.C. Escher which was first printed in October, 1961. It shows an apparent paradox where water from the base of a waterfall appears to run downhill before reaching the top of the waterfall.

Waterfall, Original lithograph print by M.C. Escher

A stylised version of the channel in Waterfall with ambiguous 3-dimensional detail added
While most two-dimensional artists use relative proportions to create an illusion of depth, Escher here and elsewhere uses conflicting proportions to create the visual paradox. Waterfall has the structure of a Penrose triangle, an impossible object designed independently by Roger Penrose and Oscar Reutersvärd.
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