{"id":359,"date":"2010-08-28T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yloveillusions.com\/en\/?p=359"},"modified":"2010-07-04T18:24:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T16:24:22","slug":"m-c-escher-in-lego-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/2010\/08\/28\/m-c-escher-in-lego-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"M.C. Escher in LEGO bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"

M.C.Escher paintings and engravings are playing havoc with perspective and the way our senses and brain build and internal image of what is visible. I would not believe it possible to reproduce them with such a rigid structure as the one provided by Lego bricks.<\/p>\n

Andrew Lipson is not the guy to be stopped by mere impossibility. He started with a simple deformation:<\/p>\n

\"Escher's
Escher's Balcony in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Balcony (1945)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After this little play, he went to much more serious work, one engraving that is not possible in the real world. A few inconsistencies, but a good copy of one of the most famous M.C.Escher paintings:<\/p>\n

\"Escher's
Escher's Belvedere in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Belvedere (1958)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My preference goes to Relativity (and what it reminds me of the movie “The name of the rose<\/a>“, with Sean Connery):<\/p>\n

\"Escher's
Escher's Relativity in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Relativity (1953)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then, a completely warped perspective made out of these little LEGO bricks:<\/p>\n

\"Escher's
Escher's Waterfall in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Waterfall (1961)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Source: Neatorama<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M.C.Escher paintings and engravings are playing havoc with perspective and the way our senses and brain build and internal image of what is visible. I would not believe it possible to reproduce them with such a rigid structure as the one provided by Lego bricks. Andrew Lipson is not the guy to be stopped by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,48,20,7,42],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture","tag-lego","tag-m-c-escher","tag-perspective","tag-sean-connery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}