Rob Gonsalves has created another interesting tessellation. Boats were his motive once again, only this time they don’t fade into arches, but transform to trees instead. How many ships can you see in this picture? Can you spot where they stop being ships, and start behaving as trees? I love Gonsalves, and hope you share my view…
A tower with very unusual shape in Beijing (China) will be completed for the Olympic games 2008.
It’s new China Central Television Tower (CCTV). It seems an impossible object , maybe you think that this building cannot exist in the our world, because it consists of two leaning towers, which are joined by a bridge with corner shape. The whole shape of the building seems like deformed square donut.
In 2002 two architects from Holland Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren won an international competition for the CCTV tower and the project broke ground in September 2004. The project is even more complex because Beijing lies in an earthquake zone, and the tower is full of technical challenges.
Escher could like this paradoxical building of his fellow countrymen.
Above you can see two different illusions. The first, most obvious one shouldn’t be a problem to spot for those of you who already knows anamorphic illusions.
More explanation can be found inside our Anamorphism category.
The second, less obvious illusion, is that the image reflected on the steel cylinder is in it’s origin a true optical illusion. If you don’t see it, remember the image of impossible pillars or Impossible Belvedere. The photo set includes two photos, where the second can be found inside this post. Original name of this art is “Reflection of an optical illusion”, and originates from Questacon, Canberra.
For the Olympic games 2008 , a unusual tower in Beijing (China) will be completed . It’s new China Central Television Tower (CCTV) and the final result could be amamzing (see above). This building cannot exist in the our world, maybe you think if you look from the correct angle , because it consists of two leaning towers, which are joined by a bridge with corner shape. The whole shape of the building seems like an impossible Escher figure.
In 2002 two architects from Holland Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren won an international competition for the CCTV tower and the project broke ground in September 2004. The project is even more complex because Beijing lies in an earthquake zone, and the tower is full of technical challenges.
Here you can see artworks and sculptures in which mathematical laws were posed as basis.
Artworks by M.C. Escher and his followers.
Escher spheres
Some Escher’s tessellated images can be adopted to spherical surface. First of all it is concerned to his lithographs which show hyperbolic space such as “Angels and Devils”, “Circle limit IV” etc. Above left is the original lithograph “Angels and Devils” and above right is the wooden spherical interpretation of it.
There’s regular way to transformation hyperbolic geometry to spherical geometry. You can read it in this math´s site .
Other Escher’s tessellations also can be applied to sphere. You can see some examples below.
