Escher's "Relativity" in LEGO®

[Ensign Steve]

This. Is. AWESOME!

http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/relativity.html

[Uthgar the Brazen]

:smoove:

[ceptimus]

See also this thread for other awesome Lego constructions. (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6399)

[Ensign Steve]

Oh, wow, so this is like really old news, isn't it?

Damn you, Geekologie!
:shakefist:

[viscousmemories]

I took a "spatial relations" test as part of a psych eval years ago and failed completely. I didn't do poorly, I failed. Completely. I couldn't make that Escher Lego model if it was a build-by-numbers kit and human existence depended on it.

[reggaeuplifts]

this is pretty awesome...although i thought the idea of the drawing was that it was physically impossible? maybe not? maybe i just failed my 9th grade math class?

[Ensign Steve]

I think it only works if you photograph it from a certain angle.

Or something.

I try not to think about it too hard.

[Chris Porter]

It's possible, but like ES says, only from a particular angle. I rendered this in a 3-D program, but it only looks right from this angle. Pretty much everything is warped or out of size relation to another thing. Thought at one time I might make an animation showing how weird it looks from other angles, but never got around to it.

http://chrisporter.huntingthesnark.com/page2/page8/page7/files/page7-1003-full.jpg