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Escher Paintings with Lego Bricks
sciuro writes "a couple of guys (A Lipton & D Shiu) have built three of M C Escher's 3D-distorting paintings using Lego bricks (and some carefully chosen camera angles). Balcony, Belvedere & Ascending and Descending are all down at the bottom of the page. Nice!" Some other pretty pieces as well.
From the "too much free time and no girlfriend" files of Slashdot...
Has Escher's copyright run out yet? :-)
evil adrian
If only they gave a Nobel Prize in misplaced talent.
The webpage mentioned in the article has been posted here before. I'm too lazy to find the link, but the guys are really good, these are just three new logo projects they've done. Anyway, imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Hacking the Network
Hmm, would that turn the Lego into GNU/Lego? Maybe that would discourage militant lego lawyers from attacking anyone who doesn't put up a disclaimer. Oh, sure, I know what you're thinking, Lego Lawyers, how scary are they, you can just pull their head off or stick the holes in their feet to some little pegs in the ground, but don't be fooled! Once those little bastards call in the Space Frontier Force, it's over! Those laser-light things burn, man! If I hadn't had the Lego Rescue Rangers there to save my ass, it would have been bad! Thankfully, they took all the lawyers, broke them apart, made an ambulance, and took me to the hospital, where they replaced a few bricks, and I'm fine now...
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
A) No Job - Stays home all day to play with Legos
B) A Really Cool Job - Stays home all day to play with Legos
Our eventual solution was to take a number of separate shots, zooming in on distinct parts of the model, and glue them together as a mosaic panorama. The image above was constructed in this way from 16 images. The final Escher transformation was implemented in a custom C program that I hacked together.
For the love of God! Implemented in C?!
Someone get this man a copy of Photoshop, stat!
"If being a geek means being passionate about something, then I pity those who aren't geeks." - Pike65
There once was a man named D. Shiu
Whose work is now being viewed.
His page will be slashed
Hashed dashed and mashed
Linked from slashdot; to his page: adieu.
Don't give me none of this "nature theme" business.
Screw art, we need more Lego Porn.
..It's upstairs in the basement.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
1) Lose your job
2) Build geometric and paradoxical shapes out of legos
3) Get them posted on Slashdot
4) ???
5) PROFIT!
I actually like his work, it's very mathmatical.
Just wait until thier older brother knocks it down and they start bawling. Ah those were the days.
... is the following snippet from the article:
"The chef's hat was suggested by my wife Lesley..."
After all this, they're still married?!
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
There seems to be enough articles about them... every time they make something new... article on Slashdot.
We could expand the segment:
* Give the guys an idea for a lego model (My guess 95% will be for Star Wars or LOTR models... the other 5% will be nude women)
* See what they do with the rest of their time (My guess is weird little contraptions around the house)
and maybe
* Live webcam updates of them building... in realtime... never miss a second of the thrilling lego building action!
I keeping looking at "Ascending and Descending" and I can't see where the trick to illusion is. I can't SEE how he did it. The "Belvedere" is easy to see how he cheated the illusion - it's in the columns. How in the *UCKIN' HELL did he do it?
I've been staring at this for fifteen minutes, connecting the stairs, following the path of little figures, and this is really pissing me off. And I'm not an idiot.
If someone can make a convincing Salvador Dali out of legos without melting any bricks, you could color me impressed.
The other day I was using my overclocked, water-cooled Linux PS2 to write some assembly code to automatically record ST:TNG while I'm out seeing TTT on November 18th. I knew it was going to take a while, so first, I used vi to write a Perl script to have my NeXT workstation brew a fresh pot of java every 30 minutes using the Mr. Coffee clone that I built out of legos. Everything was going fine for a while, but then I started thinking about M$, the RIAA, the MPAA, the DMCA, and all those goddamned emacs users, and I found my blood boiling. So I tried playing a little Q3 to get my agressions out. But despite being l337, I was getting fragged badly because the ping on my 802.11b network was too high. So I gave up and settled down in front of my plasma TV to watch Babylon 5.
Funny, it seems to be slashdotted.
What a sad, sad world...
.noitacidem deen uoy siht daer nac uoy fI
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
Never before have I seen the words "404 Server error" built in lego's and still look so increadibly clear. Kudo's man!
*looking at an apartment inspired by Escher's 'Relativ'* Leela: "Wow! Now *this* is fantastic!" Fry: "Hmm... I'm not sure we want to pay for a dimension we're not gonna use " *Bender falls down a dozen random stairs at varying angles* Bender: "Oooh Aaah Oooh Ufff Ahhh Ohhh"
Quote the website:
"I'm quite pleased with the dome - and I finally found a use for the blue ball that appears in LEGO set 8269!
I,,,, but,,,, aaarrrghhhh... damn!
my sig
Enjoy the following plans for snapping together your very own cultural icons! Start saving your 1x1 bricks!
(these are undithered, top-viewed LEGO art and use only 6 colors: black, white, yellow, red, green, blue)
Ellen Feiss
Osama Bin Laden
Bill Gates
and, of course...
the goatse.cx guy
Where can I get the four dimensional Lego tesseracts. I'm tired of all the Mindstorm and Star Wars crap.
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
that some people have WAY too much time on their hands.
The only reason I keep my Windows partition is so I can mount it like the bitch that it is.
Unless some guy was named "Jennifer," which would explain why he whould be hiding at home spending that much time on legos.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
Most advanced I ever got was trying to recreate the bridge of a Star Destroyer. I even made a Grand Admiral Thrawn.
/nerd
I made a pretty sweet X-Wing once. Folding wings and everything. But then again, who hasn't made an X-Wing out of legos at some point...