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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.
More information on MC Escher, including his artwork and uses of his artwork, can be found here and here.
Deja vu all over again. But it's been four and a half months... so we probably forgot the whole discussion already.
Thalia
I don't usually do this, though these are pretty darn cool so I setup a mirror!
http://www.zachlipton.com/mirror/lego.htm
Zach
While this link of Andrew Lipson' was mentioned back in July, this is not a repeat. The Escher works are newly added in October.
He did...
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This is not a repeat! The Escher works are newly added in October.
Go read the original story -- it's about unrelated works.
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I didn't know Escher did any painting.
In any case, what I see on this page is a couple of guys have built three of M C Escher's lithographs using Lego bricks.
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He says on the page that he does his Lego work at night.
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There are many other neat things on this guy's website besides the Eschers, most notably these mathetical scultupes and Rodin's Thinker. From the Rodin's Thinker project: This took a lot of work, despite starting from computer-generated instructions based on photographs (actually the programming was nearly half of the project). Cool!
They would have gotten better pictures if they had photographed the scenes from far away using a telephoto lens. The way they did it for this webpage, perspective is still way too visible, and makes some of the "pillars" easily recognizable as non-vertical. By moving the camera further away, this effect is reduced.
Don't miss his Dilbert scuptures. He has Dilbert, the Pointy-haired Boss, and Wally.
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I think the items represented were originally woodcarvings.
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I have no idea how these blocks are sold, so YMMV.
Lego also makes (or used to make) very large foam lego bricks. They show up on ebay and bricklink.com sometimes.
And after typing this entire post, i reread yours and saw that you were looking for 2 INCH by 4 INCH blocks... in that case what you probably want is Duplo, made by lego. look at lego's catalog.
Forgive me if this post is incoherent, I really should go to bed right now.
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This copyright is enforced. He used the images with permision. It says so right on his site.
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You aren't, but your tattoo artist is probably liable since he was not licensed to reproduce the image. And yes, most of his work is still protected since it was produced in the 1900's and he died less than 70 years ago (however, the Supreme Court decision on Eldred v. Ashcroft may have an effect on that). As to how you might cease & desist, tattoo removal is fairly easily done (especially for black ink), but it's very painful-- much worse than getting the tattoo.
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