okok hear me out.

Escher's "Hand with Reflecting Sphere" is a self-portrait experiment, he said so himself. but I was looking at it from far away and... is that ANOTHER face in there?!

I cannot find a single mention of this anywhere online.

attached: the original, a blurred version, and my extremely professional annotation.

have I National Treasured myself or is this actually real? because cha boy Escher absolutely would do this.

#Escher #Art #ArtHistory #Escheregg #DibbsOnThisDiscovery

Met verwondering gekeken naar een wiskundige 'artiest' die zo mooi laat zien hoe een andere wiskundige artiest geweldig mooie en knappe kunstwerken heeft achtergelaten.

#escher #art by #3blue1brown

https://youtu.be/ldxFjLJ3rVY

Print Gallery has always been my favourite Escher work. This analysis is amazing! 3b1b has a knack for making things easy to understand, and I think this is probably his best video ever. Highly recommended!

#Escher #Mathematics #Art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxFjLJ3rVY

https://youtu.be/ldxFjLJ3rVY

I must recommend!

#3blue1brown #conformalMapping #escher #printGallery #math

/cc @Eigenraum

Wonderful analysis and animated recreation of M.C. Escher's "Picture Gallery" by 3B1B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxFjLJ3rVY

The 2003 paper by De Smit and Lenstra who as number theorists were intimately familiar with elliptic functions ("doubly periodic complex functions") at the heart of the image https://pub.math.leidenuniv.nl/~smitbde/papers/2003-de_smit-lenstra-escher.pdf

I grew up in Baarn where Escher lived for a while but only learned later that he lived on the same street! D'oh. Of course we were separated by 35 years.

#mathematics #escher #mcescher