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Relativity, Relativiteit - M.C. Escher |
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 Famous and often imitated drawing.
Derived : Lord of the Dragon :: The Staircase :: Labyrinth : the movie
Number of ratings : 77. |
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| Waterfall, Waterval - M.C. Escher |
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 Follow the water. Where does it go ? This waterfall recycles the water after driving the water wheel. Arguably Escher's most famous and inspiring drawing.
Derived : Waterfall model :: Waterfall explanation :: Fantasy Towers
Number of ratings : 64. |
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:: 1960 :: Poster |
| Impossible doghouse - |
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 Now how did he do that ?
Derived : Impossible doghouse explanation
Number of ratings : 63. |
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| Castle of illusion - Irvine Peacock |
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 One of the most beautiful and captivating examples of the entire site.
Original : Up and down
Related : The courtyard
Number of ratings : 36. |
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| Belvédère, Belvédère - M.C. Escher |
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 A building that is impossible to construct.
Derived : Spiral Staircase to Belvedere II :: Belvédère explanation :: Belvedere in LEGO
Number of ratings : 34. |
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:: 1958 :: Poster |
| Ascending, descending, Klimmen en dalen - M.C. Escher |
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 The building seems solid enough, but when you examine it you see that the monks are ascending or descending forever. Escher didn't invent the endless staircase but he managed to draw it in a very appealing way. The inventors of the endless stairs were L.S. and Roger Penrose in 1958.
Derived : Water of life :: Ski Hill :: Impossible staircase :: Ascending and descending in LEGO
Number of ratings : 32. |
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:: 1960 :: Poster |
| Ascending and descending in LEGO - Andrew Lipson |
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 You just can't grasp it on the picture but these guys did it : ascending and descending in LEGO. Who can do better ? Read their story on the site.
Original : Ascending, descending
Related : Water of life • Ski Hill • Impossible staircase
Sites : Eschers Ascending and Descending in LEGO
Number of ratings : 31. |
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| House of stairs, Trappenhuis - M.C. Escher |
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Derived : Lord of the Dragon
Number of ratings : 28. |
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:: 1951 :: Poster |
| Up and down, Op en neer - M.C. Escher |
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 Escher plays with unusual vanishing points in this drawing. In the middle of the image, the up/down orientation shifts. In the top half of the image you are looking up, in the bottom half you are looking down. To make it complete, up and down are showing the same scene.
Derived : Castle of illusion :: The courtyard
Number of ratings : 27. |
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| Watch tower - |
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 This is a photograph of an impossible watch tower. Think about it for a moment. It's not visible in the picture, but there is an opening in this model and you should be able to figure out where.
Number of ratings : 24. |
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| Pergola - István Orosz |
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| Other World II, Andere wereld II - M.C. Escher |
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Derived : Cosmic Temple
Number of ratings : 22. |
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:: 1947 :: Poster |
| The courtyard - Irvine Peacock |
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Original : Up and down
Related : Castle of illusion
Number of ratings : 18. |
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| Illusion in stone - Norman Parker |
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Number of ratings : 17. |
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| Columns - Shigeo Fukuda |
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 An actual model of impossible columns. It only works from one point of view.
Original : The impossible fork
Related : Roman column • Three candles • The columns • L'Egs-istential Quandary • fork.jpg • Dinosaur
Number of ratings : 17. |
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| Fantasy Towers - Pete Kelly |
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 Eschers "Waterfall" in color.
Original : Waterfall
Related : Waterfall model • Waterfall explanation
Number of ratings : 16. |
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| The Staircase - |
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 Really beautiful version of Eschers Relativity.
Original : Relativity
Related : Lord of the Dragon • Labyrinth : the movie
Number of ratings : 14. |
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| - István Orosz |
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Number of ratings : 11. |
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| Ski Hill, Ski Hill - |
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 Choose the right direction and you're off on a neverending skihill !
Original : Ascending, descending
Related : Water of life • Impossible staircase • Ascending and descending in LEGO
Number of ratings : 9. |
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| Double guarded gateway to wintery Arcadia, Dubbel bewaakte toegangspoort naar winters Arcadia - Jos de Mey |
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Number of ratings : 9. |
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| - István Orosz |
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 The upper and lower side of the pillars don't match, and the statue is both in front and behind them.
Number of ratings : 9. |
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| Between illusion and reality, Illusion und Realität - Sandro Del-Prete |
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 A brick construction that is impossible in several ways.
Number of ratings : 8. |
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| Spiral Staircase to Belvedere II - Sandro Del-Prete |
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Original : Belvédère
Related : Belvédère explanation • Belvedere in LEGO
Number of ratings : 8. |
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:: 1966 |
| Cosmic Temple - Pete Kelly |
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 Nice adaptation of Eschers original.
Original : Other World II
Number of ratings : 8. |
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| The columns, Die Säulen - Sandro Del-Prete |
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Original : The impossible fork
Related : Roman column • Three candles • L'Egs-istential Quandary • fork.jpg • Columns • Dinosaur
Number of ratings : 7. |
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| - István Orosz |
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Number of ratings : 7. |
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| Waterfall model - David Coen |
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 Computer model of Escher's Waterfall.
Original : Waterfall
Related : Waterfall explanation • Fantasy Towers
Number of ratings : 7. |
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| Gateway to the 4th Dimension, Säulentor zur vierten Dimension - Sandro Del-Prete |
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 Text on the gateway : "Gateway to the fourth dimension, where at the front is in the back at the same time".
Number of ratings : 7. |
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| Roman column - Walter Wick |
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 The roman soldier is probably wondering how this was built. There are three round columns at the bottom and two square columns at the top in this photograph.
Original : The impossible fork
Related : Three candles • The columns • L'Egs-istential Quandary • fork.jpg • Columns • Dinosaur
Number of ratings : 6. |
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Convex and concave, Hol en bol - M.C. Escher |
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 The floors become ceilings, people are suddenly walking on walls. There is a lot to look at in this drawing. Escher thought more than a month about this image to make it simple enough !
Number of ratings : 26. |
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:: 1955 :: Poster |
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 One of the last scenes of this eighties movies is set in a space based on Eschers work ; a girl is trying to find her way over the stairs. Cool ! The man on the right, by the way, is David Bowie.
Original : Relativity
Related : Lord of the Dragon • The Staircase
Number of ratings : 23. |
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:: 1986 |
| Lord of the Dragon - Irvine Peacock |
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Original : House of stairs
Related : The Staircase • Labyrinth : the movie
Number of ratings : 15. |
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| Belvedere in LEGO - Andrew Lipson |
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 The greatest realisation of Eschers Belvedere I've seen to date. On the site you can read how they did it and what difficulties they came across.
Original : Belvédère
Related : Spiral Staircase to Belvedere II • Belvédère explanation
Sites : Eschers Belvedere in LEGO
Number of ratings : 15. |
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| - Jos de Mey |
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Number of ratings : 11. |
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| Arch Remark - Roger Shepard |
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 Does it ?
Number of ratings : 10. |
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| The tower of Babel on the North Sea beach, De toren van Babel op het Noordzeestrand - Jos de Mey |
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Number of ratings : 10. |
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| The Wearisome and the Easy Way to the Top - Bruno Ernst |
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Number of ratings : 9. |
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:: 1984 |
| - István Orosz |
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Number of ratings : 9. |
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| Illusionary Studio with a Never Realized Painting from Magritte - Jos de Mey |
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Number of ratings : 9. |
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| Nightmare of the student architect, Nachtmerrie van de student-architect - |
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| Piranesi in Budapest - István Orosz |
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:: 1994 |
| The Venus of Lucas Cranach is hiding for a civilian, De Venus van Lucas Cranach verbergt zich voor een burgermannetje - Jos de Mey |
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