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Re: MOC: Another Escher picture in Lego - Belvedere
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Sat, 31 Aug 2002 11:26:56 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Tony Alexander writes:
> Wow! Way cool! You guys are awesome. You mentioned some 'nasty' surprises
> laid by Escher...what were they, for those of us not as discerning (or more
> willing to be fooled by the illusion, perhaps.)?
> Peace and Long Life,
> Tony Alexander
Two main surprises. The wall with the cell window on the near end
of the lower level protrudes by about half a brick, and underneath
the window is a small ledge which sticks out another half brick. So
the base of this wall and the near wall of the stairs should be
offset by about one brick. But they both appear to line up with
the same line against the checkerboard floor pattern. I suspect that
this is a small joke on Escher's part.
The big one was perspective. At first we thought that we just needed
to build two rectangles at right angles to each other, and get the
columns to line up nicely; well, that's right as long as you can
take the picture from infinitely far away. Unfortunately, I only have
a finite zoom on my digital camera. ALso, it's clear from Escher's
picture that the viewpoint is quite close (we're looking down on the
checkerboard floor and the level on which the ladder rests, but up at
the upper level of the building. That meant that the pillars, which
go diagonally away from or towards the viewer as they go up, can't
be parallel; they have to diverge away from the viewer. And that meant
in turn that the points at which they met the lower level aren't
regularly spaced. And that means that the floor at the top of the
stairs can't actually be a rectangle. And of course none of these
diagonal distances are exact multiples of a stud, so we have to make do
with (mostly) close approximations. And of course that means that
there isn't really anywhere where it looks exactly right; the best
you can do is find a point where everything _almost_ lines up.
We found the same thing with "Balcony" when we built that; there are a
few things that the casual (or even not-very-casual-at-all) viewer is
probably not going to spot, because they only become obvious when
you actually track through the picture in enough detail to try to
build it. I'm interested to know how many other Escher pictures have
"easter eggs" like this hidden in them!
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| Wow! Way cool! You guys are awesome. You mentioned some 'nasty' surprises laid by Escher...what were they, for those of us not as discerning (or more willing to be fooled by the illusion, perhaps.)? Peace and Long Life, Tony Alexander (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.build)
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