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homepage Our perceptual organization process continues after providing a result.
Continue viewing the Reversing Staircase Illusion and you will see it flip
into a second staircase.
M.C. Escher used complex variations on this illusion to achieve some
wonderful effects like showing representations of people walking in opposite
directions, both descending. He also joined staircases into an appearance
of infinite ascent/descent.