Escher in LEGO
Andrew Lipson has a talent. He merges his LEGO skills with some of my favourite works of art. You can view larger images of Escher’s ‘Waterfall’ by clicking on the image (above), where Andrew also gives a little insight into the LEGO creation.
The waterfall itself was about an evening’s work. I started by writing some C code to model a gradually widening parabolic arch with random variations for the spray (hacked from the code I use for my mathematical Lego sculptures) and then gradually modified it by hand until I liked the look of the result.
Good thing Andrew knows what he’s talking about.
Above is Escher’s ‘Ascending and Descending’ piece. Click on the image for larger photos and more info on the project.
No camera tricks, but the picture has to be taken from exactly the right place, and the final photograph was slightly distorted to emphasise the perspective effect.
This is actually the second time I’ve featured Andrew’s LEGO. The previous blog post, showing Escher’s ‘Relativity’ lithograph, can be seen here: Escher loves LEGO? Much respect to Andrew Lipson for his devotion to LEGO.
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All those childhood years of playing with lego and building space stations seem so wasted now.
The best part is the revelation of how the illusion works!
I dont have anything constructive (haha) to say, but this made me smile. Cheers!
Never underestimate the value of LEGO space stations. My favourites were, however, medieval castles. None of this arty farty stuff.
Any attempt at humour on my blog is constructive. Whether it’s funny or not. ;)
Wow. that is AWESOME… legos are cool.
Escher was a genius… these guys are not far behind.
I browsed that guy’s site and he has some other pretty amazing LEGO pieces as well.
That is AMAZING…. I’m a huge Escher fan, and I know his pictures well.. I stared at those lego sculptures forEVER! How on earth did they do that? Crazy!!!
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Have been a Maurits Cornelis Escher fan for years.
His early work (1916-1922) was a precursor to the more ‘famous’ (or familiar) pieces. What an incredible artist.
It’s amazing that Andrew was able to replicate Esher’s work as well as he did. Kudos, Mr. Lipson
Incredible - My son is into two things (1) Legos (2) Star Wars - thanks for the post!
WOW! This is so amazing! :-)
Now this definitely puts lego to some better use than I used to do, greatly done indeed :D. Absolutely love Escher and this just simply tops it off.
Wow, that is great stuff. Very cool. I was “making castles this morning with my 2 year old but they didn’t look anything like these!
makes me want to buy a whole lego set now and try it myself
this is pretty awesome!