Re: impossible figure
From Arthur J. O'Dwyer <aj...@andrew.cmu.edu>
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· 17 May 2003 16:30 · View full thread
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On Sat, 17 May 2003, Veronica Karlsson wrote: > > Arthur J. O'Dwyer wrote: > > > > And the last picture, diddled to put the stream behind the building, > > rather than in front: > <snip> > > The original has that part in front of the building: > > http://www.siteaboutnothing.com/images/escher-waterfall.jpg > > (and I looked quite closely at that when I made that ascii version) Yeah; I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Yours is a really great picture! But the receding perspective on the stream is harder to grasp in ASCII art, so I thought that making the stream obviously "recede" behind the building was a good way to make the optical illusion stand out, even if it did make it less faithful to the original. -Arthur ObASCII: _ `.\ ._, ,-+._J | ( __> `._, `-\ ; _.,) ._] '_.- `-./``-/ |-' < [ \,' Apparently, Escher can draw lizards better than I can, too.
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From: "Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <aj...@andrew.cmu.edu>
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