Video: The Art of the Impossible: MC Escher and Me - Secret Knowledge

[AndrewMeronek]

IMHO this is some seriously awesome stuff. I don’t know much about the guy, but I’ve always thought Escher’s art was pretty neat. I knew he liked to play with geometry, but I didn’t realize just how much. Wow.

Part 1:

Part 2:

[AndrewMeronek]

A lecture on the subject:

[timothy42b]

Yes. Awesome.

Time to re-read GEB.

Except I'm struggling through an online math course in my spare time.

[peteedwards]

thanks for posting these videos, I've always been a huge Escher fan. A few years back just for fun & CAD practice I modeled some of his more mathematical 3 dimensional images & created stereoscopic images of some of them. The stereoscopic images are "cross-eye", which means you cross your eyes & merge the 2 images to see them in 3D, no viewer or glasses required.

https://grabcad.com/library/m-c-escher-doric-columns-1
https://grabcad.com/library/m-c-escher- ... rinds-ii-1
https://grabcad.com/library/m-c-escher-sphere-spirals-1
https://grabcad.com/library/m-c-escher- ... pheres-i-1
https://grabcad.com/library/m-c-escher-trefoil-knot-1
https://grabcad.com/library/m-c-escher-mobius-strip-i-1
https://grabcad.com/library/m-c-escher- ... strip-ii-1
https://grabcad.com/library/m-c-escher-spirals-1

You can also view just about his entire body of work here in HQ images: http://www.mcescher.com/