I was at my friend's apartment one night and we were watching some documentary on Netflix and they showed the Penrose triangle, and I always wondered how it was made. How something so simple could be so brain twisting to people. So I set out to try and make my one Penrose triangle to see how it works and how it's built, and see if it can be applied to a different shape.

The first image is just a simple Penrose triangle, but the second image I made a Penrose star. Where like the Penrose triangle it keeps going in a loop forever. It was interesting making this because it's essentially the same shape that is just repeated four more times. Then you just have to make sure you connect it all together. What made it relatively simple was setting up some guides for myself and using other shapes like a pentagon as guides for the end points. Then I could mess around with how it was going to be perceived by adding color. For this project I wanted some bright loud colors, and that's why I chose the yellow. Then by making the gradients with the same yellow as the background and an orange that wasn't too far off from the yellow, you get this really nice smooth transition between the two colors. What also happens is that in some areas the impossible objects I made slightly vanish into the background, adding to the impossible object effect.