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Escher Paintings with Lego Bricks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the prett-pictures dept.

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.

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  1. Copyright! by Evil+Adrian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Has Escher's copyright run out yet? :-)

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    1. Re:Copyright! by limekiller4 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Evil Adrian writes:
      "Has Escher's copyright run out yet? :-)"

      Well, if we represent a timeline with an Escher staircase and we represent the passage of time as the people walking up the stairs, then the answer is no, his copyright will actually never run out. =)

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  2. Why, why by Reggie+Funk · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only they gave a Nobel Prize in misplaced talent.

  3. What suprised me... by Cervantes · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... was that this made /. without having a Lego Penguin...

    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...

    ... Hmm, maybe they were right about that whole "acid trip flashback" thing...

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  4. Must be nice.. by l810c · · Score: 5, Funny
    This guy has either:

    A) No Job - Stays home all day to play with Legos
    B) A Really Cool Job - Stays home all day to play with Legos

  5. Misplaced effort . . . by Pike65 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:Misplaced effort . . . by GuyMannDude · · Score: 5, Funny

      Someone get this man a copy of Photoshop, stat!

      Using a user-friendly tool like Photoshop would defeat the whole geeky purpose! He was able to use the words "custom program" and "hacked" in the same sentence -- a prerequisite for recognized by slashdot. The only things that could have made this cooler would have been:

      • Reverse-engineering the Photoshop software and then modifying it for his purpose
      • Using assembly instead of C
      • Making his webpage with a text editor while watching Star Trek

      All in all, a good geek project!

      GMD

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    2. Re:Misplaced effort . . . by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Funny
      Someone get this man a copy of Photoshop, stat!

      Using a user-friendly tool like Photoshop would defeat the whole geeky purpose! He was able to use the words "custom program" and "hacked" in the same sentence -- a prerequisite for recognized by slashdot.

      OK, shall we compromise? Someone get them a copy of the Gimp...

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  6. limerick by bobtheprophet · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    Don't give me none of this "nature theme" business.
  7. Re:Mona Lego by fobbman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Screw art, we need more Lego Porn.

  8. I got one of these.. by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..It's upstairs in the basement.

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  9. It strikes again... by 403Forbidden · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:Mona Lego by jmoriarty · · Score: 5, Funny

    If someone can make a convincing Salvador Dali out of legos without melting any bricks, you could color me impressed.

  11. Good geek project? by DirtyJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.