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  1. We need Escher, stat! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Manga Guide to Databases

    > Manga guide to Recursive Programming: By far the most artistic book of them all, princess Ruruna decides to draw herself drawing a picture of herself drawing a picture of herself drawing a picture of herself drawing a picture of herself drawing a picture of herself drawing ...

    Quick! Call M.C. Escher!

  2. Re:Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach by jericho4.0 · · Score: 1 · on Roger Penrose and the Road to Reality
    Roger Penrose (with his father) was the inventor of the "Penrose Cube", and that 3-tined fork thingy at age 16. Both of which form the basis of some of Eschers more famous work. See here for more. A little bit of trivia more geeks should know...

    On the topic of GEB, I totally agree with you. The AC who dissed it as "for the kids" is full of himself. (Or way smarter than I am) I first read it at ~14, and it remained for years one of the most inspiring books I'd read.

  3. Re:Design: language or diagrams? by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 1 · on How Do OOP Programmers Flowchart?
    Didn't anyone ever tell you that a picture is worth a thousand words?

    Draw me a picture of the Gettysburg address. Or one of Basho's haiku - that should only take about 1/100 of a picture, right?

    For some things, pictures are very useful. For example, circuit digrams are great for figuring out electronics.

    For other things, they're useless. You can't draw me a picture that explains why Tennyson's Ulysses is beautiful. (Any more than you could write prose or a poem that gets anywhere near Escher's drawing hands - witness the literal description on the linked page.)

    Diagramming software is about as useful as diagramming a plots in a discussion of a novels, or the grammar of sentances - an occasional useful adjunct, but by no means the primary mode of presentation.

    Languages are inherently linear.

    To the contrary, programming languages took conditionals and iteration from natural language. In a written work, one can skip around amd cross-reference; prose is random-access. And viewing a diagram is just as linear - your attention only focuses on one element at a time, and you trace connections - lines - between them.

  4. Sounds like a big version of a 3D printer by bugnuts · · Score: 1 · on Contour Crafting - Extrude-a-House

    I couldn't read the site, but it sure sounds like a big 3D printer of some sort.

    The beauty of arbitrary construction is now I can have my dream home!

  5. Re:Dali Rocks!!! by fuzzix · · Score: 1 · on Disney Completes Dali Animation

    I always preferred Escher myself.

  6. Re:More MC Escher drawing by oever · · Score: 1 · on Water Flows Uphill
    Check out xscreensaver for some really cool Escher inspired screensavers based on his drawings
  7. Re:More MC Escher drawing by oever · · Score: 1 · on Water Flows Uphill
    Check out xscreensaver for some really cool Escher inspired screensavers based on his drawings
  8. Evil Patents! by while(true) · · Score: 1, Funny · on Water Flows Uphill
    "James Dyson - no stranger to court battles over patents - has presumably taken care of the necessary legal business."

    I guess they forgot to check for prior art... :)

  9. More MC Escher drawing by Michael's+a+Jerk! · · Score: 5, Informative · on Water Flows Uphill

    are at the World of Escher. The man was a genius.

  10. Interesting... by Stephonovich · · Score: 5, Informative · on Water Flows Uphill
    Quite an elaborate optical illusion. The original drawing is also worth looking at.

    (-:Stephonovich:-)

  11. Human brain might be a quantum computer by Jon+Taylor · · Score: 2, Interesting · on IBM Working on Brain-Rivaling Computer
    Sir Roger Penrose, the brilliant methematical physicist, and Stuart Hammeroff, a medical researcher at the University of Arizona, have for years postulated that the human brain is a quantum computing substrate. Their hypothesis is that the cellular skeleton (cytoskeleton) of neurons, which is made up of so-called microtubules, functions as some type of quantum waveguide system, allowing for the production of large-scale coherent states of quantum superposition within the human nervous system. A nanotech quatum supercomputing neural net of amazing power might be between our ears! If this were to turn out to be true, one individual neuron might be more "powerful" than this whole computer!!! Perhaps this is unlikely, but given how little we know about the operation of large-scale logic in the brain, it cannot be ruled out. Penrose claims that this state of quantum superposition explains the sensations and operation of consciousness (a "soul" of sorts) as well. Read his book Shadows of the Mind for more info. There's lots of stuff about quantum consciousness on Hammeroff's page, too. Trippy stuff indeed.

    Jon

  12. More information by kaosrain · · Score: 4, Informative · on Escher Paintings with Lego Bricks

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

  13. For those who don't know Escher by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative · on Escher and Elliptic Curves

    World of Escher

  14. Re:Switzerland, bah by DickPhallus · · Score: 1 · on Patent Nonsense

    In the same line as this quote, it's interesting to note the Dutch produced such painters as Van Gogh and Rembrandt and M.C. Escher

    Albeit the dutch also had plenty of wars, conflicts, and even pirates, both in the true, historical sense and in the modern sense of the word.

    So, in context, were the patent laws a major factor in each countries development?

  15. Escher and quake by Vintermann · · Score: 3 · on PanQuake

    When I looked at "Relativity" by Escher, I thought that it would be bizarre if you modeled that scene as a quake map. It's actually possible, and I think that it's interesting, if not useful or fun for deathmatches :-) .

    There is a different Escher picture that is interesting to compare with the screenshot in the link: up and down.
    It's not excacty the same type of distortion. Actually, I'm quite suprised Escher never used that particular type of distortion, I guess it shows that the style of art he created is by no means exhausted.