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Michelle Lee

M.C. Escher - Geometry - 1 views

  • Mathematics, particularly the theme of Geometry played a large role in almost all of the work Escher created in his life time. He would often use tessellation's and his use of polyhedral and geometric distortions have been an inspiration to both mathematicians and scientists over the last century.
    • Michelle Lee
       
      He often used tessellation or geometric distortions in most of his work. Mathematical concepts in art! :)
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    I did tessellations when I was teaching 6th grade math 7 yrs ago.
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    Wooh! Fun fun!
Sarah Clem

Waterfall - Escher - 0 views

  • Escher's Waterfall is based on the Impossible Triangle of his friend and admirer  Roger Penrose,  the British mathematician and physicist. In fact, Escher incorporated not one but two Penrose tribars, as they are now known, in his lithograph.
    • Sarah Clem
       
      Escher was obviously really good at math. I like to use him as an example of how art and math connect and why math is a cool subject. (Michelle, math is cool! you know the MS kids attitude!) :)
Sarah Clem

Escher's "Waterfall" Explained | Impossible worlds (inc. staircases) | Optical Illusions - 0 views

    • Sarah Clem
       
      This trippy little image shows how something that is not actually possible in the 3-d is possible in the 2-d world.
    • Sarah Clem
       
      Sometimes my students draw things like thing on accident when they are trying to draw things in believable space. At first they don't understand how to arrange objects in space so objects they want to be far away appear close up and vice versa...
loren d

escher explained - 1 views

shared by loren d on 18 Nov 09 - Cached
Hannah Hopkin

Escher for Real - 0 views

  • Here is our physical realization of Escher's Waterfall. You can also watch this object rotating in space in this avi movie. This realization stems from using three joint Penrose triangles along the water stream. Note also the way the house is warped so as to look natural from this viewing direction (only).
    • Hannah Hopkin
       
      Turning Escher's work into 3-D
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