All Relative

Escher's "Relativity" in LEGO

Andrew Lipson has a special place in his heart for LEGOs. That's a good thing since it leads to these "Works of the Lego Masters":

"Daniel Shiu and I worked on this as a joint project after we finished our rendition of Escher's "Ascending and Descending", making it our fourth Escher picture rendered in LEGO. Once again, no camera tricks, but the picture has to be taken from exactly the right place, and boy did we get tired of trying to find where that place was. The whole thing took five or six evenings spread over two or three weeks. Most of the last evening was taken up with setting up the lighting the way we wanted it and trying to get the camera position just right...

Posted by Vanderleun at October 14, 2003 6:54 AM