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Alas, it was a clever hoax. The images above showcase the same staircase from two different but simultaneous perspectives by means of a mirror. As a result, we see a traffic cone at the top of the stairs in one perspective, but that cones appears to be at the bottom of the stairs in the second perspective. In reality, the stairs are as flat as a pool table, but shaped just so, with mathematical precision, so that the same drawn-on line intersections appear to be concave from one viewpoint but convex in its mirror-image.
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