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Re: Escher's "Relativity" - a study in SNOT
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Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:51:39 GMT
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Andrew Lipson wrote:
http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/escher/relativity.html

Your picture has made it into a Swedish Technical weekly "Ny Teknik" #42,
2003-10-15!

Scan at:

http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/NTEscher.jpg

Quick and dirty translation:

"CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE It's happened again. Another impossible picture by
the artist M. C. Escher, 'Relativity' from 1953, has been built with Lego.
This time it's two gentlemen named Daniel Shiu and Andrew Lipson that have
industriously put together the bricks in a seemingly completely impossible
way."

--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD:  http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm
Gallery:   http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/gallery/index.htm



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  Escher's "Relativity" - a study in SNOT
 
After several months' absence due to non LEGO-related geeky activities... Daniel Shiu and I have just finished another Escher reproduction in LEGO. This time it's "Relativity"; the most excrutiating example of SNOT techniques I've ever had the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build) !! 

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