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Did anyone else think about M.C. Escher after reading this post?

I'm not going to argue about the technical accuracy as certainly everyone has different sources. What I want to say is, the post created an impressive image in my brain about P2P peers downloading things from each other in the same fashion as Waterfall - 1961. This way, like the parent says, everyone is always downloading, i.e. the water is always going down. Endlessly.

Did anyone else think about M.C. Escher after reading this post?

I'm not going to argue about the technical accuracy as certainly everyone has different sources. What I want to say is, the post created an impressive image in my brain about P2P peers downloading things from each other in the same fashion as Waterfall - 1961. This way, like the parent says, everyone is always downloading, i.e. the water is always going down. Endlessly.

Finally we can look forward to accurate Escher reproductions!

http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/back-bmp/LW389.jpg

As far as I know, that image you linked to for an example of a Moebius strip is not actually a Moebius strip - that strip you've linked to is nice, but it clearly has two sides. =)
This is an example of MC Escher Moebius Strip

M. C. Escher
There's the famous well known M. C. Escher famous for placing strange loops in his work thus making his tessellations and peculiar drawings centered on curious near mathematical conundrums (Mobius Strips, infinite limits, undefined boundaries, etc). For the most part, I believe he did woodcuts so if you're thinking about originals ... well, woodcuts are an odd market.

Fractal Art
There are several variants of this and you could buy some or create it yourself (not hard to find scripts that do this). It ranges from in your face to subtle. This is common and widely created.

Slashdot Story Art
A while back, there was a story on some humorous computer science-y art you could ask the original artist for permission to use.

Or you can just look at various collections for your own tastes.

M. C. Escher
There's the famous well known M. C. Escher famous for placing strange loops in his work thus making his tessellations and peculiar drawings centered on curious near mathematical conundrums (Mobius Strips, infinite limits, undefined boundaries, etc). For the most part, I believe he did woodcuts so if you're thinking about originals ... well, woodcuts are an odd market.

Fractal Art
There are several variants of this and you could buy some or create it yourself (not hard to find scripts that do this). It ranges from in your face to subtle. This is common and widely created.

Slashdot Story Art
A while back, there was a story on some humorous computer science-y art you could ask the original artist for permission to use.

Or you can just look at various collections for your own tastes.

M. C. Escher
There's the famous well known M. C. Escher famous for placing strange loops in his work thus making his tessellations and peculiar drawings centered on curious near mathematical conundrums (Mobius Strips, infinite limits, undefined boundaries, etc). For the most part, I believe he did woodcuts so if you're thinking about originals ... well, woodcuts are an odd market.

Fractal Art
There are several variants of this and you could buy some or create it yourself (not hard to find scripts that do this). It ranges from in your face to subtle. This is common and widely created.

Slashdot Story Art
A while back, there was a story on some humorous computer science-y art you could ask the original artist for permission to use.

Or you can just look at various collections for your own tastes.

M. C. Escher
There's the famous well known M. C. Escher famous for placing strange loops in his work thus making his tessellations and peculiar drawings centered on curious near mathematical conundrums (Mobius Strips, infinite limits, undefined boundaries, etc). For the most part, I believe he did woodcuts so if you're thinking about originals ... well, woodcuts are an odd market.

Fractal Art
There are several variants of this and you could buy some or create it yourself (not hard to find scripts that do this). It ranges from in your face to subtle. This is common and widely created.

Slashdot Story Art
A while back, there was a story on some humorous computer science-y art you could ask the original artist for permission to use.

Or you can just look at various collections for your own tastes.

In case anyone is confused, InvisiblePinkUnicorn is referring to this drawing by M.C. Escher

In case anyone is confused, InvisiblePinkUnicorn is referring to this drawing by M.C. Escher

But alas, that's an impossibility of geometry.

If M.C. Escher was alive, he would find a way.

It would presumably come up with the same results show in these videos on the Escher site itself:

http://www.mcescher.com/Downloads/downloads.htm

qz

I always find it interesting how the visual arts community attempts to capture the reality of the world based on the known principles of their day. Looking back through history at the artist rendering of our world provides us with a unique perspective on how wrong we were in describing the world in art.

Art is all about expressing ideas or concepts visually-- Certain portions of the world of science, especially quantum mechanics, are just too weird for us to capture in visual display. Perhaps it will take someone like Dali or Escher to provides us with a view of the quantum world.

But I don't see much difference in the representation of top and down quarks in the panels shown.

That said, I always find it interesting how the visual arts community attempts to capture the reality of the world based on the known principles of their day. Looking back through history at the artist rendering of our world provides us with a unique perspective on how wrong we were in describing the world in art.

I'm afraid that the world of quantum mechanics is just too weird for us to capture in visual display. Perhaps it will take someone like Dali or Escher to provides us with a view of the quantum world.

But again, it could just be me.

Scientific types aren't the only ones who use trig; a couple weeks ago a friend of mine wanted to draw a perfect pentagram on his guitar. We didn't have a a compass or protractor, just rulers and a calculator. It was fun determining the points on the diagram; we hadn't used trig in years, but it really wasn't hard, just basic sines and cosines.

This also reminds me of M.C. Escher; his repeating tiled diagrams (like the reptiles one) were all based on tiling the plane with geometric figures. I imagine he used trig and other math quite extensively in his work.

Scientific types aren't the only ones who use trig; a couple weeks ago a friend of mine wanted to draw a perfect pentagram on his guitar. We didn't have a a compass or protractor, just rulers and a calculator. It was fun determining the points on the diagram; we hadn't used trig in years, but it really wasn't hard, just basic sines and cosines.

This also reminds me of M.C. Escher; his repeating tiled diagrams (like the reptiles one) were all based on tiling the plane with geometric figures. I imagine he used trig and other math quite extensively in his work.

Scientific types aren't the only ones who use trig; a couple weeks ago a friend of mine wanted to draw a perfect pentagram on his guitar. We didn't have a a compass or protractor, just rulers and a calculator. It was fun determining the points on the diagram; we hadn't used trig in years, but it really wasn't hard, just basic sines and cosines.

This also reminds me of M.C. Escher; his repeating tiled diagrams (like the reptiles one) were all based on tiling the plane with geometric figures. I imagine he used trig and other math quite extensively in his work.

I've just begun doing some printmaking at home. Doing linocuts and printing them by hand on paper. Just looking up information, I found Escher did this as well. Certainly an artistic figure many geek-types have taken to.

It's not difficult or expensive to do (all you need is the linoleum, some blades, a brayer and ink), but I find that many traits good coders have apply well to it (like everything, right? Also think design/typography). I find it a satisfying after a day of programming.

A particular example of the maths is here.

These animations will possibly explain it. Sortof. I spent all of last night trying to regain my faith in perspective after watching them. Don't say you weren't warned.

--
rasher

More information on MC Escher, including his artwork and uses of his artwork, can be found here and here.