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The illusion shown above which was discovered by Helmholtz in the 19th century. Despite the fact that the two above figures are identical in size, the white hole looks bigger ...

The dissection of the four pieces shown at left into the capital letter "T" shown at right.

The dodecicosahedral graph is the skeleton graph of the great ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron, great dodecicosahedron, great icosicosidodecahedron, small ditrigonal ...

The great snub dodecicosidodecahedral graph is the skeleton of the great snub dodecicosidodecahedron, illustrated above in a few embeddings. It will be implemented in a ...

The small snub icosicosidodecahedral graph is the skeleton of the small retrosnub icosicosidodecahedron and small snub icosicosidodecahedron. It is illustrated above in a ...

Eternity is a puzzle devised by Christopher Monckton and consisting of 209 pieces, each of which is a 12-polydrafter (i.e., a compound of 30-60-90 triangles). The puzzle was ...

The hexagram is the star polygon {6/2}, also known as the star of David or Solomon's seal, illustrated at left above. It appears as one of the clues in the novel The Da Vinci ...

The positive integers 216 and 12960000 appear in an obscure passage in Plato's The Republic. In this passage, Plato alludes to the fact that 216 is equal to 6^3, where 6 is ...

The triangle graph is the cycle graph C_3, which is isomorphic to the complete graph K_3 as well as to the complete tripartite graph K_(3×1)=K_(1,1,1) and the triangular ...

The necker cube is an illusion in which a two-dimensional drawing of an array of cubes appears to simultaneously protrude from and intrude into the page. A Necker cube ...