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.

Comments

Re:More than one

[Pooua]

Before you try to point out Slashdot repeats and feel cool, why don't you actually read the old article you linked to, where you would see it is about mathematical sculptures. Then go on to notice that this article is about MC Escher artwork in Legos. Then go to the guy's website and see how the MC Escher stuff was added recently. Then apologize for being a jackass.

How about if I proclaim myself a psychic? I haven't read the Escher material from the current post, but I can tell you what it contains. It explains, in the illustration of the people walking around the square tower, how there is actually a gap in the tower, and the photograph has to be taken from a certain angle to see the illusion of the Escher painting. How is it possible that I would know that, when I haven't read that page since July? Am I psychic? Or, is this really a repost of the exact same material?

To preempt any semantic bastards

[Zen Programmer]

I meant 'sculptures', not 'scultupes'.

Re:duplicate story

[Pooua]

No, this is not a duplicate story, it's an update on their projects. It is a story about the same people that we wrote about back in July, but what if we cried out "duplicate story!" every time a story about Microsoft or Linux was posted?

It is a duplicate story. I haven't read the page since July, but I remember reading their explanation for the "Descending/Ascending" tower from back in July. The Escher material was on the page in July. I'm sorry if all you people missed it back then.

Is this open source?

[m00nun1t]

How unlike /. to feature a proprietary tool like this. Have lego released their source code under the GPL? I thought not. You are tied into their closed source bricks. This is monopoly action at its extreme. Have you seen how much lego costs? It doesn't cost more than a few cents to make a brick.

Does anyone know of an open source/GPL lego-clones?

Re:Copyright!

[ebbv]

this has got to be the dumbest fucking reply i've ever read.

it's worth the karma loss to tell limekiller4 what a worthless moron he is.