Caleidociclos de M. C. Escher

by Doris Schattschneider

Other authorsWallace Walker (Author)
Paperback, 1991

Status

Available

Call number

769.92

Publication

Benedikt Taschen (1991), Paperback

Description

Intricate patterns, elegant geometries, and mind-boggling graphics are trademarks of the magical visual world of Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972.) Mysterious and mathematical at once, his work has captivated scientists, scholars, and popular culture, inspiring book covers, album art, films, posters, and puzzles. This book brings Escher's tessellated wonders into your own hands with easy-to-assemble paper sculptures. Folding along perforated edges, you can transform the artist's richly dimensional designs into intricate, interlocking objects of forming and reforming patterns, including genius arrangements of flowers, butterflies, lizards, and seashells. The book includes concise instructions as well as a review of the geometric principles and artistic invention underlying Escher's optical marvels.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member tripleblessings
This book is a do-it-yourself craft collection. A booklet about Escher's designs is accompanied by 17 sheets of printed card for making paper models. Escher designs are printed on the card stock, with instructions for folding them into 3-dimensional sculptures. The cardboard models can be folded
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into tetrahedrons, octahedrons, icosahedrons, cubes, dodecahedrons, and kaleidocycles which are like a long complex chain that can be connected into a circle.
Very cool for mathematicians, puzzle fans and students to play with.
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LibraryThing member themulhern
Fascinating and unique book.

Language

Original publication date

1977

ISBN

3894503327 / 9783894503321
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