MetaFilter posts tagged with mcescher

The pursuit of album art...

dfm500 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:55:57 -0800

Mick Jagger asked about using the art of MC Escher on "Through The Past Darkly"

Affordable Furniture For Your Five-Dimensional Home

oneswellfoop — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:09:07 -0800

M.C. Escher Meets IKEA for some impossible items you WISH you could buy. Of course, this isn't a totally new idea, in fact, even an IKEA fansite has played with the concept. (Dedicated to anyone who ever suspected the assembly instructions were written in an alternate reality) But sometimes, even without intending, a do-it-yourselfer can achieve something pretty close. And now, IKEA itself has embraced the Escher influence in one ad. IDEA by Escher is a stylistic departure, but a good example of the humor of the usually-single-panel "Rock Paper Cynic" webcomic. Here are a few other recent examples. YES!

Escher's Relativity in paper

Confess, Fletch — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:17:57 -0800

Paper artist Bryan Peele has made M.C. Escher's Relativity out of card stock. Instructions included He also has many other cool items on his Flickr page

OMG what did you do to my brain?

ryoshu — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:02:22 -0800

M.C. Escher + Line Rider = Echochrome previously

Uphill Both Ways

vronsky — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:16:47 -0800

A Day In The Life Of An MC Escher Drawing

Of course, I'm illiterate!

owhydididoit — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:44:42 -0800

Platonic Realms is an online math academy. It features a searchable encyclopedia with extended articles on things from Cantor's Theorem to Zeno's Paradox of the Tortoise and Achilles. You'll also find minitexts, such as "Coping with Math Anxiety" and "The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher". Last but not least, a searchable math quotes database.

Snakes

jonah — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:18:17 -0800

Snakes. An animated film based on a woodcut by M.C. Escher. Slow to load, beautiful to watch (and listen to).

Speaking of LEGO...

Mr_Spook — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:00:46 -0800

LEGO Escher is an amazing collection of some of the more famous prints by famous surrealist M.C. Escher rendered in LEGO. There's tons more like this at LUGNET (LEGO International Users Group Network).

Smarter than the average water feature

klaatu — Wed, 21 May 2003 06:49:25 -0800

GardeningFilter! James Dyson's Wrong Garden - water going uphill in a perpetual-motional Escher-like fashion; how is it done...?

M.C. Escher + Lego = ?

bhell13 — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 16:57:39 -0800

M.C. Escher + Lego = ? I used to make spaceships and houses with my Lego not 3D representations of famous optical illusions! [via Filepile]

Mathematician Henrik Lenstra

alms — Tue, 06 Aug 2002 14:38:59 -0800

Mathematician Henrik Lenstra was intrigued by a blank space in he middle of a drawing by MC Escher. Over two years he managed to describe the mathematical structure of the drawing, project what should go in the missing space and produce an extraordanary animation of the result.