Penrose Unilluminable Room Is Impossible To Light

2022-05-19

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Penrose Unilluminable Room is a room with mirrored walls that can't be fully illuminated by a single point source of light. I thought I was the first person to build one but Action Lab beat me to it: /youtube/video/inMihNPjevM

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