Created by Kokichi Sugihara of the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences in Japan. The Impossible Motion Magnet-Like Slopes was the first prize winner at the Best Illusion of the Year Contest 2010.

Jem Stansfield of BBC’s Bang Goes The Theory, travels to the Solar Furnace Research Facility in Southern France to see what kind of damage highly concentrated sunlight can do (a lot, apparently).