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==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name=brorub>{{cite journal | last1 = Brouwer | first1 = James R. | last2 = Rubin | first2 = David C. | date = June 1979 | doi = 10.1068/p080349 | issue = 3 | journal = [[Perception (journal)|Perception]] | pages = 349–350 | title = A simple design for an impossible triangle | volume = 8| pmid = 534162 | s2cid = 41895719 }}</ref> <ref name=ernst>{{cite conference | last = Ernst | first = Bruno | editor1-last = Coxeter | editor1-first = H. S. M. | editor1-link = Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter | editor2-last = Emmer | editor2-first = M. | editor3-last = Penrose | editor3-first = R. | editor3-link = Roger Penrose | editor4-last = Teuber | editor4-first = M. L. | contribution = Escher's impossible figure prints in a new context | pages = 125–134 | publisher = North-Holland | title = M. C. Escher Art and Science: Proceedings of the International Congress on M. C. Escher, Rome, Italy, 26–28 March, 1985 | year = 1986}} See in particular p. 131.</ref> <ref name=fedorov>{{Cite journal|last=Федоров|first=Ю.|date=1972|title=Невозможное-Возможно|journal=Техника Молодежи|volume=4|pages=20–21|url=http://zhurnalko.net/=nauka-i-tehnika/tehnika-molodezhi/1972-04--num22}}</ref> <ref name=francis>{{cite book | last = Francis | first = George K. | contribution = Chapter 4: The impossible tribar | doi = 10.1007/978-0-387-68120-7_4 | isbn = 0-387-96426-6 | pages = 65–76 | publisher = Springer | title = A Topological Picturebook | year = 1988}} See in particular p. 68, where Francis attributes this observation to [[John Stillwell]].</ref> <ref name=gardner>{{cite journal | last = Gardner | first = Martin | date = August 1978 | issue = 2 | journal = [[Scientific American]] | jstor = 24960346 | pages = 18–26 | title = Mathematical Games: A Möbius band has a finite thickness, and so it is actually a twisted prism | volume = 239| doi = 10.1038/scientificamerican1278-18 }}</ref> <ref name=pappas>{{cite book | last = Pappas | first = Theoni | author-link = Theoni Pappas | contribution = The Impossible Tribar | location = San Carlos, California | page = 13 | publisher = Wide World Publ./Tetra | title = The Joy of Mathematics: Discovering Mathematics All Around You | year = 1989}}</ref> <ref name=penpen>{{cite journal | last1 = Penrose | first1 = L. S. | author1-link = Lionel Penrose | last2 = Penrose | first2 = R. | author2-link = Roger Penrose | date = February 1958 | doi = 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1958.tb00634.x | issue = 1 | journal = [[British Journal of Psychology]] | pages = 31–33 | pmid = 13536303 | title = Impossible objects: a special type of visual illusion | volume = 49}}</ref> <ref name=wa>{{cite web|url=https://www.wa.gov.au/government/media-statements/Court%20Coalition%20Government/Unveiling-of-East-Perth-redevelopment%27s-latest-piece-of-public-art-19991105|title=Unveiling of East Perth redevelopment's latest piece of public art|date=5 November 1999|publisher=Government of West Australia|access-date=2025-05-09}}</ref> }}
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