Re: The Waterfall

DaSmurf wrote:
> 
> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> >
> > DaSmurf wrote:
> > >
> > > Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> > > > Michael Naylor wrote:
> > > > [ 8< ]
> > > > > WOWZERS!  I wanted to add the waterwheel, but it seemed awfully tough.
> > > > > Nice job Veronica!
> > > >
> > > > :) *blush*
> > > > The idea behind it looks something like this:
> > > >
> > > >       __        __
> > > >      /\ \      /\ \
> > > >     /  \ \    /  \ \
> > > >    / /\ \ \  / /\ \ \
> > > >   / / /\ \ \/ / /\ \ \
> > > >  / / /__\_\/ / /__\_\ \
> > > > / / /______\/ /________\
> > > > \/_____________________/
> > > >      -> waterfall ->
> > > >
> > > > (you'll have to turn it 90 degrees to get it right)
> > > > --
> > >
> > > Have to change a little in your explanation... ;)
> >
> > No, you misunderstand, the discussion was about a specific painting by
> > M.C. Escher where water runs away in a canal system into the distance
> > and then it falls down a waterfall and back to the beginning of the same
> > canal system.
> 
> I know that...what I ment was that the first pic made like 'the
> impossible'
> way was that triangle I posted..

And what does that have to do with the waterfall picture?

> 
> > That particular picture is based on a "double impossible triangle"
> 
> It was here i misunderstood, the 'double' ...sorry :)
> 

ok :)

> > You can admire Escher's picture here:
> > http://www.cs.utah.edu/~dmcallis/Pic/Escher/waterfall.jpg
> 
> I have it as 'real' paper picture ;)
> 

I have it too, somewhere :)

> > of which I made my own version (complete with big wheel and power
> > station):
> 
> Wich is REALLY great job...don't think I ever could have done it half
> way like that :)
> 

All I did was look at the picture and try to copy the details...

> >
> > And that is what Michael Naylor was commenting on. I then explained that
> > the picture by Escher that is obviously the idea behind our, somewhat
> > simpler, pictures is based on two impossible triangles placed above each
> > other in the way that I tried to describe above and that that is why my
> > picture looked better than his "three-and-a-half-sided" version...
> >
> > Then, a day or two later, I made this picture, which looks more like the
> > original by Escher:
> 
> I saw...its INCREDABLE! :)
> 

*blush* (hmmm.... maybe I should just have stuffed it into a
gif-to-ascii converter and posted the result.... saved myselef some
trouble... ;)

> >
> > [ 8< smurfs 8< ]
> 
> BTW..what did u mean with that? ;)
> 

the 8< is a pair of scissors (meaning I "cut" something out) and the
"smurfs" part was a little note that the thing I cut out had something
to do with smurfs (and since I'm not interested in smurfs I just ignored
that part). :)

-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )

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