Comments on: Escher's office, 1935 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/06/09/eschers-office-1935/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:05:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: magetoo http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/06/09/eschers-office-1935/#comment-1067 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:52:27 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/06/09/eschers-office-1935/#comment-1067 Yes, good old Maurits Cornelis. (Someone else thought about "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw" rel="nofollow">MC</a>" too.) I think you might enjoy watching <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/20070403lenstraVN350K.asx" rel="nofollow">this lecture</a> (around 1 hour) over at <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/" rel="nofollow">Princeton</a>, titled "<a href="http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/" rel="nofollow">Escher and the Droste effect</a>". It's about Escher's "<a href="http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/index.php?menu=escher&amp;sub=orig" rel="nofollow">Print Gallery</a>", and doing something similar for that. And it's absolutely amazing stuff. (At least for those of us nerds who can fondly remember perspective drawing in art class as the only thing we were ever any good at...) <a href="http://www.papyromania.nl/" rel="nofollow">Annelies Smit</a>'s <a href="http://www.papyromania.nl/PaperWorks/5/med/e010.htm" rel="nofollow">caleidocycli</a> might be interesting too. (Apologies if you already posted that one.) In fact, why don't you make it a whole new Escher-related blog post. That lecture deserves more exposure than being hidden in some comment thread, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who is going to come up with interesting things to post. Yes, good old Maurits Cornelis. (Someone else thought about "MC" too.)

I think you might enjoy watching this lecture (around 1 hour) over at Princeton, titled "Escher and the Droste effect".

It's about Escher's "Print Gallery", and doing something similar for that. And it's absolutely amazing stuff. (At least for those of us nerds who can fondly remember perspective drawing in art class as the only thing we were ever any good at...)

Annelies Smit's caleidocycli might be interesting too. (Apologies if you already posted that one.)

In fact, why don't you make it a whole new Escher-related blog post. That lecture deserves more exposure than being hidden in some comment thread, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who is going to come up with interesting things to post.

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