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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Ascending & Descending Model Illusion

Here is an actual model of Escher's Ascending & Descending. It measures Height 17.5 inches, Length 24 inches, Width 24 inches. Dave created this model and was the Overall winner in the HADD7 (Hirst Arts Design Derby) contest that recently concluded on August 30, 2012.

You can read exactly how Dave created this masterpiece here.

But this photo is just the surface, the real art is in the interior rooms. Click on any thumbnail image below to see the detail that Dave created. I especially love the caption Dave wrote for the Monk image below.

Great work Dave.

Dave Barlow
copyright 2012
used w/permission

Brother Aelfric arrives for his first day at the monastery and utters a quiet prayer,
"Please gods, don't make me climb those stairs forever."

Dave Barlow
copyright 2012
used w/permission

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Recursive Insanity

An excellent example of an Escheresque image created with modern digital manipulation instead of pen or paint.

Pinky Dinky Dave Thinks Big
Flickr Artist: dmswart
Tags: photos, optical_illusions, illusions, art

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Escher in the City

Here is a digitally manipulated photo created in the style of M.C. Escher, purposefully designed to make you question which way is up. How many different photos were used in creating this photo?

Which Way
created by sirchopsalot
@ PST
Kudos to Sirchopsalot for a wonderful creation.

Below is a montage of the original images used to create this very interesting Escheresque image. If you guessed nine different photos, congratulations you are correct.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Lego Impossible Object Optical Illusions

Like the impossible triangle illusions of the past here is a modern day impossible object. Utilizing legos, a Sony Cybershot camera and some old fashioned know how the artist created this exceptional optical illusion.

Impossible!
by bbzippo
(c)2004

He isn't the first to create illusions out of Legos. Andrew Lipson has done some amazing optical illusions using Legos...

Here is Escher's Balcony

(c) Andrew Lipson ................................... (c) M.C. Escher

The amazing aspect of Andrew's work is his behind the scenes photos and explanations go to his site and check out all of the illusions that he has created.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Endless Staircase From Inception

Inspired From Escher's Staircase

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Impossible Wages Illusion - Escher Economy

Escher Economy
by Robert John Matson

Friday, September 16, 2011

Funny DJ Escher Optical Illusion

Fun with M.C Escher Illusion
Funny DJ Escher Optical Illusion

DJ Escher

by David C. Lovelace

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Moving Escher's Waterfall Illusion

Animated image of Escher's Waterfall with gargoyles at the top.
You can see other pixel art image of the same author here.
Moving Escher's Waterfall Illusion

Monday, August 29, 2011

Lemmings vs Escher Optical Illusion

Lemmings vs Escher
by Andrew "Bones" Jones

Monday, August 8, 2011

M. C. Escher in Water Drop

If you guys are familiar with this blog or illusions.. We’ve featured many pieces recreated in LEGO, papercrafts, animated gifs, even in billboards, but this is undoubtedly the first time someone has been able to show us what the image looks like when shot through a drop of water!

M. C. Escher in Water Drop

Friday, July 22, 2011

Escher's Chair Illusion - Impossible Chair Illusion

Impossible Chair Inspired by M.C. Escher
and Originally from Steve Williams (Pinhead Industries)

Monday, July 18, 2011

Albert Einstein Escher - Albert Einstein Optical Illusion

Made by Tom Burns

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Escher Staircase in Chinese Garden

Cool Escher Ladder Illustration

Escher Staircase in Chinese Garden

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Escher Chessboard

Original chessboard following the guidelines of the Escher staircase

Escher Chessboard

Escher Chessboard

Original chessboard following the guidelines of the Escher staircase

Escher Chessboard

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Escher's Waterfall in Pixel Art

Escher's Waterfall in pixel art by Brian Gambrell (ToshioMagic)

Escher's Waterfall in Pixel Art

Escher's Waterfall in pixel art by Brian Gambrell (ToshioMagic)

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Real Life Escher's Waterfall

So what's going on here? One thing about Dutch artist M.C. Escher was his ability to twist our brains with his optical illusions. The "Waterfall", which was created back in 1961 is an impossible drawing showing what appears to be water running uphill before descending back onto a watermill wheel. You can see how the original looks on paper here. But what if we caught a glimpse of it created in real life? Has McWolles really achieved the impossible? Check the video below to see the physical version of Escher's Waterfall. It is as if McWolles made one that actually works. Being honest, I just can't understand where is the catch. Does it have something to do with camera's angle (it never changes during the video), can it be that CGI was used? It almost gives you brain whiplash just thinking about it!

Monday, June 6, 2005

Escher's Infinite Circle - II

Stacy of She Dreams in Digital has an excellent site full of interesting digital art creations. She offers many fine prints for sale and many great fractals suitable for wallpaper free of charge.

The below is crossposted with permission of Stacy Reed from She Dreams in Digital.

This one was created using the script ~ datagram wrote upon my request and though it takes some real manipulating, in effect, Escher's idea to create an infinite pattern in a predefined shape can be achieved and in such a beautiful way.

Those of you who are familiar with M.C Escher have probably seen his woodcut series titled Circle Limit I - IV in which the center pattern is the largest, and scales down considerably until it is infinite around the perimeter. The other day, I applied a few scripts, and pushed Apophysis to it's limits until something like this began to show. I was truly amazed, and I was so obsessed with this, that I begged Matteo to help me write a script so that I could obtain these results again. I sent him some of my sample flames and he figured it out from there.

I am always amazed at the different things I can achieve with fractal software like Apophysis. With this script, we can now put Escher's vision into a new modern perspective. M.C. Escher was brilliant. Indeed, he was one of the most fascinating artists ever to grace the planet, and he gets all the credit for this one. If you don't know of him, (and I can't imagine that there are many fractal lovers out there who don't) you need to do a google search right now. Go on... do it. You won't be disappointed!

Created with Apophysis only. No postwork.

Friday, May 27, 2005

Escher Parodied

Worth1000.com had a photoshop contest the rules were as follows:

Escher. All Escher, all the time, He's not cliche anymore. Everyone's got at least one, so... Anything goes-- tweak it, colour it, tattoo it, whatever, start with an Escher, and have fun.

The rules of this game are thus: You are to photoshop any MC Escher image in some way. As always, quality is a must. We will remove poor entries no matter how much we like you. You'll have 48 hours for this contest, so make your submissions count.

Alright if you are not familiar with Escher you can read a bio on him here. In the mean time here are four entries into the contest. Go there and check out the rest of the entries they are worth the visit.

reptiles_blowout2 by wisbin

Munster Escher by chrisglover

Sand Castle (themepost) by Flippant

SKY n' WATER by UNSUB1

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