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January 28, 2009 9:17 PM Subscribe
Andreas Aronsson makes interesting impossible figures, documents the process, and philosophizes. Via lines and colors and Neatorama, where Aronsson shows up to call himself "an Oscar Reutersvärd ripoff." Reutersvärd is often credited as the founder of the impossible figure.
Click the images at Aronsson's site to get a "full size" option.
Click the images at Aronsson's site to get a "full size" option.
Actually, it looks like Oscar Reutersvärd's first impossible drawing (1934) predates Escher's (1937, according to his official site) by a couple of years.
posted by mediareport at 9:30 PM on January 28, 2009
posted by mediareport at 9:30 PM on January 28, 2009
That third one is beautiful. I'd love for someone to come up with a video game that cheated in its perspectives to allow players to walk around on something like that.
posted by CheshireCat at 9:49 PM on January 28, 2009
posted by CheshireCat at 9:49 PM on January 28, 2009
i've long been fascinated with escher but this is (sadly) the first i've heard of Reutersvard. Wonderful. Thanks Mefi
posted by vantam at 9:50 PM on January 28, 2009
posted by vantam at 9:50 PM on January 28, 2009
Yours is a wonderful post.
posted by Fupped Duck at 10:24 PM on January 28, 2009
posted by Fupped Duck at 10:24 PM on January 28, 2009
There's nice stuff on linesandcolors.com - I especially like Lane Bennion's things: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/01/23/lane-bennion/
posted by krilli at 3:24 AM on January 29, 2009
posted by krilli at 3:24 AM on January 29, 2009
I'd love for someone to come up with a video game that cheated in its perspectives to allow players to walk around on something like that.
Well, it's a little low-tech, but it's been done.
posted by Hubajube at 3:35 AM on January 29, 2009
Well, it's a little low-tech, but it's been done.
posted by Hubajube at 3:35 AM on January 29, 2009
I should have pointed out that he has six pages of posts under the "impossible figures" tag; it's easier to navigate from there.
posted by mediareport at 4:30 AM on January 29, 2009
posted by mediareport at 4:30 AM on January 29, 2009
Sweet mother of crap, Son #2 would love Echochrome. Too bad it doesn't run on anything we have...
posted by DU at 5:15 AM on January 29, 2009
posted by DU at 5:15 AM on January 29, 2009
Sweet, now all we need is an orphaned drone and we can finally destroy the Borg!
posted by Dark Messiah at 7:26 AM on January 29, 2009
posted by Dark Messiah at 7:26 AM on January 29, 2009
I love things like this, but they always make my eyes water after a minute or two. I can't imagine someone making a profession out of looking at them.
posted by roll truck roll at 8:06 AM on January 29, 2009
posted by roll truck roll at 8:06 AM on January 29, 2009
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(This is cool.)
posted by klangklangston at 9:20 PM on January 28, 2009