I love the minimalist simplicity. Somehow I think that this might be more compelling, however, if the top of the ladder ended in front of the guy. And I would ditch the question mark; you've already captured that confusion with your title. Fine tuning: Instead of flaring ladder-base shadow, have shadow match ramp lines. Going up ramp from bottom, top of left-side edge should meet the top edge of the right-turn ramp, and then the corner at the next turn should be straight up and down, not curved. Right-side edge of long center ramp should be straight up and down at the bottom, and at the top it should match the top of the left-turn ramp.

I already tried setting the ladder in front, but somehow it ruins some parts of the illusion. The question mark will be removed and I probably will not have time to edit the rest since I am working on multiple contests. Thanks for the suggestions though.

DanLundberg, if the top of the ladder ended in front of the guy, it wouldn't be quite an illusion then. If he/she fine tuned according to how you say, it would not be an illusion anymore--it would be realistic.

nice work ...............

k5683: If there were no guy, there would be no (really significant) illusion. The guy transforms the final ramp plane from a top to a bottom. My suggestion merely proposed that having the ladder connect to the front of that bottom (the direction the guy is facing) might be better than connecting to the back of that bottom -- plus (I would note) connecting to the front would create an illusion even without the guy (i.e., an alternative way to convert the final ramp plane from a top to a bottom).

great

good luck

very nice work, best of luck

very cool...gl

nice

Good! Good! Good!

I am a Guns and Roses fan ...like the entry and the title also ...good luck

nice job.... good luck

very nice job , gl

nice illusion ..................

good job

nice... popular optical illusion remade in a nice sketchy-vectorial way. all the best, GL

great job

Very good!

nice job .............

nice

your overlapping step on the left, it drops down, on top, making the motion from top left to bottom right (to the middle) un convincing and kills the illusion, unlike the crossing section on the right which looks good. not sure if that makes sense, but if it makes it easier, try spotting the difference between the two overlapping step sequences and fix the bit on the left so it looks more like the bit on the right.

thanks well spotted! fixed it now!

good luck

fantastic

nice, it's an infinite optical illusion like this, and thanks to izometric axonometry, you can trick the eye very easy... GOOD LUCK

fabulous

beautiful ...............

very beautiful design author ! well done

(i would just suggest adding a sbs just in case )

Neato! I'd like to know how you did it though. I'll hold my vote till we get the SBS.

this makes me woozy so it must be good LOLOLOL

BYW, you have to make an SBS if you used no external sources.

nice..........

Wow, when I stare at the middle long enough, lines get ahead that globe.

SUPER COOL.

oh... this is fantastic...

cool