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Discussing M.C. Escher in class, naturally I thought of oGsMC and the GSL finals. hurr hurr, MinChul Escher. Anyway, MC Escher did some really cool tessellations, interlocking patterns and some mindwarping infinite stairs or shapes twisting into other shapes. I recommend looking up his stuff.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/Fo6WS.jpg)
MC Escher's work characterized by balance, repetition, symmetry and subtle transitions.
I am a huge fan of both players, so it's difficult to pick one to root for. They both produce exciting games and display a refreshing level of candor and confidence.
I want to see both players do well and ultimately put on a great series, and possibly start a heated rivalry. Can MC continue his dominance as the first ever repeat champion? Can JulyZerg reach the same heights in SC2 as BW, being a golden mouse winner. Two of the most violent and crushing players colliding.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/WYTuP.jpg)
Money, pride and fate of pvz balance threads - with so much on the line will we get repetition, or symmetry?
However, with oGsMC being the overwhelming favourite, I can't help but pull for JulyZerg. Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily one for underdogs. It's more about that having people overlook and forecast a beatdown upon a player with the history and violent conviction as JulyZerg. Nobody tells Tushin what he can or can't do! I want see that beast roar back.
Regardless, I am pumped for this event and want to see both players put some elite calibre games. There can't be a "Kratos Protoss" and a "God of War" at the same time... There can only be one!
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/puTCi.jpg)
In honor of ST.July vs oGsMC
 
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Oh my, the SC remake of the Escher painting was just awesome
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Nice transition, very clever! I love a good Escher tribute.
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You're awesome.
I love Escher :D
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United States7166 Posts
wow I'm blown away by the last image..you even used 2 of july's most famous units
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5/5 very nice blog dude.
I love escher too. My parents are/were friends with a guy named Scott Kim that does similar tesselations, but focusses more on foreground/background tricks, 'ambigrams' (symmetric lettering), and more recently 'brain teaser' style puzzles that I'm really not into. You might be interested, check out his website http://www.scottkim.com/
edit: for a particulalry cool example check out this page http://www.scottkim.com/inversions/gallery/figure.html
also read Goedel, Escher, Bach (an Eternal Golden Braid) by Douglas Hofstadter. It's some of the purest nerd joy you'll ever find in a book.
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Thanks guys.
Haha yea, I kept thinking of muta/lings when I saw that air/sea themed one. Just had to do it. It was lots of fun. Makes me appreciate his stuff (and similar art) even more after trying to imitate it.
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I've had a calendar with his paintings for 2010, never heard of him before yet bought it upon finding. Started to like his stuff a lot, especially this one: ![[image loading]](http://www.mcescher.com/Shopmain/ShopEU/facsilimeprints/data/1000/8%20Three%20Worlds.jpg)
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That's a nice tessellation bro, well played.
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Nicely done, i wish i could do that ones 
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wow man that muta ling art is awesome :D
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The escher imitation is sick! Good work. How long did that take? I wouldn't even know how to go about starting something like that....
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Katowice25012 Posts
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Washington, D.C9933 Posts
whoa that's wild. i can't even imagine how to begin making something like that.
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Amazing stuff. Mad props man.
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instant 5 star.
MC esher is by far my favourite artist, something about his art really grasped me as kid.
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That's a pretty awesome tessellation. Really nice transition.
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Badass artwork, dude.
July is my pick as well.
Escher is a boss.
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This is amazing. Please release a larger wallpaper size  !
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Awesome content. Worth the spotlight and the time.  Might make this my desktop.
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god damn. That's actually incredible.
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Wow that is INSANELY cool.
Amazing : O
I'm sure if someone showed July that and told him what it was for he would absolutely LOVE it!
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That is really awesome. Good job sir
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wow this is awesome, my hat is off to you sir
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great work man 5/5
July fighting!!!!!
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Oh wow, thanks again guys. Cool to see a lot of people like Escher as well. There's only one thing that will make this night better than getting spotlighted, and it starts in 5 mins! /hypehypehype
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Amazing. So much awesomeness that I can't handle. xD
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<3 M.C. Escher and <3<3 your picture.
When MC wins, will you make a protoss themed one?
how about Jinro?
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Amazing. Just amazing.
Hats off to you sir
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Awesome post. Escher is the bomb.
I have no idea who to root for... All I want is a close and exciting finals ><.
There can only be one!
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Holy crap, you have no idea how many bricks I shat when I saw the transition from Muta to Zergling. AMAZING! You're so good!
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I love the title but where's the forcefields with the zerg units in your tessellation?
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That MC Escher-Style Muta/Ling Picture is batshit crazy friggin awesome man.
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That is SUCH a cool tessellation.
I thought for a second it was going to be a force field joke
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Absolutely gorgeous. My new background ^_^
Love to hear how you made it hell how you design it rather.
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hahahaha, this is awesome!
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Never before had I seen the parallels between my favorite 2d artist and one of my favorite sc2 players
well done, well written, great stuff
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MC + July + Escher + that drawing = 10/10 blog. Well done, sir.
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I was reading, thinking about how much I love July but really wondering why this had been spotlighted; starting skipping the last image, but stopped and took a second actually look at it.
Woah.
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Great idea and well done.
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On March 19 2011 10:34 aidnai wrote:
also read Goedel, Escher, Bach (an Eternal Golden Braid) by Douglas Hofstadter. It's some of the purest nerd joy you'll ever find in a book.
YESSSS
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Escher is my favorite artist and July was easily my favorite BW player, so please excuse any outbursts while I try to contain my sheer joy at your combination of the two.
As far as his art goes, "Eye" is my aesthetic favorite, but "Cycle" is his most poignant piece. A masterful combination of artistic skill and social commentary, it speaks to me of our individual yearnings for significance and uniqueness that get folded meekly into the pattern of culture. We try so hard to stand out, but we were nonetheless similar in our beginnings, and so similar in our endings.
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I fucking love MC Escher and I fucking love July.
This post is beyond awesomeness.
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Amazing work. Escher is incredible(so is MC and july)
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wow just excellent job! mutas and lings are so awesome
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thx u made me an escher fan
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really cool picture. i move Esher. have alot of his posters
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Always thought Escher's artwork was cool. kudos to you~!
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Yes for tessellation! And it's such a fun word to say too...
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On March 19 2011 11:07 thehorsebecomesking wrote:I've had a calendar with his paintings for 2010, never heard of him before yet bought it upon finding. Started to like his stuff a lot, especially this one:
For the record, Escher is not a painter, and does not create Paintings. He is a Printmaker and he creates prints. He is, in fact, one of the more prolific printmakers in all of history.
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I had this banging red headed art teacher who would get all hot and bothered talking about MC Escher.. you could really see her squirm. Pretty gnarly actually! Love your Escher esque rendition at the end there. Nice work
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This drawing is incredible. Wow.
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Yes Escher prints are awesome. I always have one or two on the wall. Nice work on the ling/muta!
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Woah, that is pretty sick. But how come it's Muta and Zergling? Shoudln't it be like Sentry and Baneling, their signature units?
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Escher is fantastic no doubt, but there are other artists out there too on the topic of 'favourite artists. I'm a bit of an art buff so this probably bothers me more than it should, and I don't mean to be a buzzkill or derail the thread or anything, but just simply I feel the gaming/geek/online community is too quick to jump on the escher boat when it comes to famous artists, perhaps because of his novelty. And in doing so a lot of great artists have been forgotten, like picasso, van gogh, salvador dali (though he has recently had a strong resurgence of followers) or even andy warhol. I guess to relate it to SC, it's like the fanatacism that was behind Boxer when other players were doing equally well and even better, despite having a less risky/flashy/exciting playstyle. Just my $0.02
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artosis: "more one side then a mobius strip" made me think of this :
![[image loading]](http://people.via.ecp.fr/~jm/musee/escher/MoebiusBandII.jpg)
isn't that picture beautifull?
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On March 23 2011 17:43 XenoX101 wrote:
Escher is fantastic no doubt, but there are other artists out there too on the topic of 'favourite artists. I'm a bit of an art buff so this probably bothers me more than it should, and I don't mean to be a buzzkill or derail the thread or anything, but just simply I feel the gaming/geek/online community is too quick to jump on the escher boat when it comes to famous artists, perhaps because of his novelty. And in doing so a lot of great artists have been forgotten, like picasso, van gogh, salvador dali (though he has recently had a strong resurgence of followers) or even andy warhol. I guess to relate it to SC, it's like the fanatacism that was behind Boxer when other players were doing equally well and even better, despite having a less risky/flashy/exciting playstyle. Just my $0.02
I think that has to do with the graphic nature of Escher's prints. His quiet, mechanical rendering is very similar to what you would expect from computer graphics. I think Escher's tact for rendering the physically impossible in a space that is fully believable is very appealing to the digital generation.
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On March 24 2011 04:11 Fateless wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2011 17:43 XenoX101 wrote:
Escher is fantastic no doubt, but there are other artists out there too on the topic of 'favourite artists. I'm a bit of an art buff so this probably bothers me more than it should, and I don't mean to be a buzzkill or derail the thread or anything, but just simply I feel the gaming/geek/online community is too quick to jump on the escher boat when it comes to famous artists, perhaps because of his novelty. And in doing so a lot of great artists have been forgotten, like picasso, van gogh, salvador dali (though he has recently had a strong resurgence of followers) or even andy warhol. I guess to relate it to SC, it's like the fanatacism that was behind Boxer when other players were doing equally well and even better, despite having a less risky/flashy/exciting playstyle. Just my $0.02 I think that has to do with the graphic nature of Escher's prints. His quiet, mechanical rendering is very similar to what you would expect from computer graphics. I think Escher's tact for rendering the physically impossible in a space that is fully believable is very appealing to the digital generation.
I agree with you. However, I think it is a misconception that Escher's works are 'physically impossible'. If they were, they could not possibly be rendered in an image, either. I think a part of the attraction is that several of Escher's works presents the viewer with something which looks unlikely or impossible, but which is an elaborate illusion caused by a distorted sense of space or form. Several sculptures and other pieces of physical art have been made which, from certain perspectives, establishes the same or corresponding views as that of Escher's paintings.
I think the allure lies with the works apparently delimiting or highlighting the boundaries of geometry and physical possibility. But, as noted, to 'show the boundary' of something requires being able to know the other side of it as well, and something geometrically or physically impossible could not be displayed. So, it's an illusion.
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On March 24 2011 06:50 Dystisis wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2011 04:11 Fateless wrote:On March 23 2011 17:43 XenoX101 wrote:
Escher is fantastic no doubt, but there are other artists out there too on the topic of 'favourite artists. I'm a bit of an art buff so this probably bothers me more than it should, and I don't mean to be a buzzkill or derail the thread or anything, but just simply I feel the gaming/geek/online community is too quick to jump on the escher boat when it comes to famous artists, perhaps because of his novelty. And in doing so a lot of great artists have been forgotten, like picasso, van gogh, salvador dali (though he has recently had a strong resurgence of followers) or even andy warhol. I guess to relate it to SC, it's like the fanatacism that was behind Boxer when other players were doing equally well and even better, despite having a less risky/flashy/exciting playstyle. Just my $0.02 I think that has to do with the graphic nature of Escher's prints. His quiet, mechanical rendering is very similar to what you would expect from computer graphics. I think Escher's tact for rendering the physically impossible in a space that is fully believable is very appealing to the digital generation. I agree with you. However, I think it is a misconception that Escher's works are 'physically impossible'. If they were, they could not possibly be rendered in an image, either. I think a part of the attraction is that several of Escher's works presents the viewer with something which looks unlikely or impossible, but which is an elaborate illusion caused by a distorted sense of space or form. Several sculptures and other pieces of physical art have been made which, from certain perspectives, establishes the same or corresponding views as that of Escher's paintings. I think the allure lies with the works apparently delimiting or highlighting the boundaries of geometry and physical possibility. But, as noted, to 'show the boundary' of something requires being able to know the other side of it as well, and something geometrically or physically impossible could not be displayed. So, it's an illusion.
Again, to clarify, Escher was a printmaker, which means he created prints and I am personally unaware of any paintings created by Escher that are especially prolific.(Can you guys tell I'm a printmaker yet )
I am aware of such sculptures, specifically the ones created by Shigeo Fukuda are amazing.
http://www.illusionworks.com/mod/fukuda.htm
(Whom I would highly reccomend to TLers and anyone interested in art.)
And I would argue that by this logic, anything that can be rendered into an image is physically possible. Truly, any image that resides on a 2-dimensional surface that you are able to perceive as existing in three dimensions is an illusion just like Escher's. The difference, is that Escher's illusion causes you to believe in the existence of structures that are impossible in physical space. The infinite waterfall effect is physically impossible, but with imagery you can create the illusion that a waterfall was feeding into itself. A physical situation in which this illusion could be created, is possible, but I don't feel like communicating a coincidence of perspective was the point Escher wanted to make to us.
Take Relativity for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Escher's_Relativity.jpg
Physically constructing a room with these attributes is entirely possible, but you wouldn't be able to walk upside down on the stair cases like you can in Escher's print. I feel this print is more about communicating the idea of a Gestalt system where you have multiple independent elements (In the case of relativity these elements would be the walls and staircases.) which, based on perspective form the building blocks of several different larger systems, independently, simultaneously, and within the same space. I feel this hypothesis is well supported both by the title, and by Escher's body of work in general.
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really impressive escher-zerg. i love it
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Italy420 Posts
impressive tribute! def want to make one as well
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That looks pretty awesome.
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