Maurit Escher Research Paper

Maurit Escher Research Paper
Escher's full name is Maurits Cornelis Escher. He was born on June 17, 1898, in Leeuwarden,
Netherlands.
When he was five years old he took up carpentry and piano lessons until the age of 13. When he
attended highschool he was an excellent drawer but received poorer grades in most other subjects.
He went to Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts where he studied architecture for a
short while before moving onto decorative arts. Having gained experience in drawing and
woodcutting in particular, he left the school in 1922. In 1924, he married a woman named Jetta
Umiker who he met in Italy whilst he was travelling there. He died in Laren, Netherlands on March,
27, 1972.
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Tessellation By M. C. Escher
"I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints."(M.C. Escher) That quote, said by
Maurits Cornelius Escher (M.C. Escher), is the basis of his unique creations and projects. M.C.
Escher is known today as the world's most famous Dutch graphic artist. His art is enjoyed by
millions of people all over the world as his work included impossible constructions such as
ascending and descending, relativity, and transformation prints. He also made some realistic work
such as Castrovalva, a lithograph print of a place he visited in Italy. However, his most fascinating
works he has made have been his wonderful creations of Tessellations. A Tessellation, also known as
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Escher's famous creations of tessellations are not only seen as art, but it is also seen to have a great
mathematical significance as well. M.C. Escher once quoted, "For me it remains an open question
whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art". One might think that art
and math are two completely different subjects, however, that is wrong. For Escher, they can be
combined and used together as seen with the idea of tessellations. As people, we know what Escher
created is classified as an art. The oxford dictionary states that "art is an expression or application of
human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture,
producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power." Escher's
tessellations can be seen as beautiful and was created through his imagination and creative skill. On
the flip side, most people don't realize that it is also mathematically is an essential part of this art as
well. His work almost went unnoticed until late 1950's when mathematicians recognized his work
through the many mathematical principles that it had included in it. Although Escher did not have
any mathematical training, the mathematics used in his works was mostly instinctive and visual.
Escher's work, without a doubt, has a strong mathematical component. Escher's work, according to
Sydney Smith, "embodies two broad areas such as the geometry of space and the logic of space"

Benton High School: Tessellation
Tessellation Ashton J. Gunter Benton High School Tessellations. You see those almost everyday you
go somewhere. A tessellation is a repeated pattern of different shapes put together. They are in
bathrooms, kitchens, etc. You may have never even noticed that you see tessellations everywhere
you go. The first article that I read had to do with the history of a tessellation and it also explains
what a tessellation is. "Tessellations of a plane can be found in the regular patterns of tiles in a
bathroom floor, or flagstones in a patio." (Mackenzie) Which is what I explained in the previous
paragraph. " A tessellation of a plane is any subdivision of a plane into regions or "cells" that border
each other exactly, with no gaps in between." (Mackenzie) Some patterns you see you may think
they are tessellations they are actually not. You know why? Because you may not think that there
was a skip and or gap of the pattern. That just makes a regular pattern. What did I learn? Well I
knew that their was a more professional name for a pattern which is a tessellation. For example of a
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The second article was the geometry tiles. This article was about what shapes you could have as a
tessellation. It says that any shape you see could be a tessellation. It also explains more in detail
what a tessellation is. "Tessellate means to form or arrange small squares in a checkered or mosaic
pattern." (Coolman) An example of this is when you have a blanket you might say and it is not just a
plain blanket. Well you have a tessellation in that. The sewer has a design and or pattern in his or her
head that they have to have in order to make the blanket and or quilt. "The first tilings were made up
of square tiles." (Coolman) To start out with that is was a square, then they started making up new
ideas they could make tessellations out of. I honestly did not know that the tessellation started out as
square

M. C. Escher Analysis
The last few weeks I have been working on a recreation of the M.C. Escher house of stairs. I have
fallen totally in love. I started by deviding my paper into a forty eight square grid where each square
was 4x4 inches. I had also decided to only spend 15 minutes per square, this left me a twelve hour
project and nothing but pure excitement. The original picture I drew from. Setting my timer to ring
every fifteen minutes was possibly the best decision I have ever made. Some squares didn't require
the whole amount of time, while in others I could lose my self entirely. I have seen this picture so
often I could explain it to anyone. I can tell you that the first set of stairs from the bottom contains
nine steps, the second contains twelve and the third has fourteen. Beginning, 45 mins in. I have
found that after staring long enough straight lines become curved and curved lines become straight.
This picture is so amazingly complexed that I'm lost in confusion whenever I try to decipher what is
happening. During this process I have also spend large amounts of time counting, I count the stairs,
the bricks, and the sections of the roll–ups. Everything in this piece is calculated and it's all there for
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Like the rest of the piece I was also confused. I counted and recounted and many of the creatures
contain eighteen sections, but several contain nineteen. I have yet to find a pattern explaining why,
but there has to be a reason. While researching the piece I discovered that their name is wentelteefje
which translates roughly from Dutch to curl–up. Now I've decided that "curl–up" doesn't do the
creatures justice. In my head I call them "Eschermals" it's a mix of Escher and animals. This name
sounds wonderful in my head and the one time I tried to explain it to someone it also didn't translate
well. So like Dutch my mind fails to translate with the same amount of grace as the original

Maurits Cornelis Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher or more commonly known as M.C. Escher was born in Leeuwarden,
Netherlands on June 17, 1898. Growing up Escher was the youngest son of a hydraulic engineer,
and was known for not having a good aptitude in mathematics. Through the years it was discovered
that Escher had a knack for art and was encouraged by a teacher to follow and pursue his interests in
drawing and woodcutting. Upon realizing that his talent lied in art, Escher enrolled in the School for
Architectural and Decorative Arts in Haarlem to study for architecture, which was very quickly
found to not be where his true talent lied. Escher's true talent, as discovered, was in decorative arts
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It is here when he showed his interest in Italian architecture and landscapes, along with growing
depth of detail in his woodcuts. Some pieces from this time period include; Hand with Reflecting
Sphere, 1935 lithograph, Self–Portrait, 1929 lithograph, Castrovalva, 1930 lithograph, and Cave
Dwellings (near Spelinga Sicily), 1933 woodcut. Hand with Reflecting Sphere is a hand holding a
reflective sphere, which we can tell is reflective due to the reflection that is cast upon the sphere by
Escher in a room (we know it is Escher due to the Self–Portraits he has created). The work does a
really fabulous job of representing the reflective surface of the sphere, along with the amount of
detail put into the hand and the dimensions of the reflection itself within the sphere. Castrovalva is
an Italian landscape piece where Escher put a great amount of detail to give the scene a three
dimensional quality it has. The town is clearly defined on top of the cliff, with a valley, more hills,
and clouds are also clearly distinguishable as well. Cave Dwellings (near Spelinga Sicily) is just a
truly beautiful and striking piece where Escher contrasts the darker inside of the cave to the bright
outside, there are tiny amounts of detail everywhere that highlight the structure of the cave and all
that is inside

Can Art Change the Way We View the World
Can Art Change the Way We View the World?
Susan Agee
Classics in Philosophy of Art – P346
Gregory Steel
Fall 2012
For centuries, art has been interwoven throughout the history of mankind. From primitive carvings
on cave walls and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, to the Sistine Chapel and the Mona Lisa, artistic
creations have enthralled the human race. Art may be a window to the creator's world; it has
potential to instill desire in the viewer to do something they have never done, be somewhere they
have never been and inspire to fulfill a dream or goal. Additionally, Art may possibly allow the artist
to illustrate their own perception of a place or even attempt to deceive the viewer. However, to truly
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To illustrate this idea that perceptual experience may be different than what is real, consider the
optical illusion. Artists such as Charles Allan Gilbert and M.C. Escher were masters of the craft of
illusion in art. For example, in 1892 Charles Allan Gilbert drew a picture that he called "All is
Vanity". This piece of artwork is an ambiguous optical illusion using a skull, which has been the
object of many pieces of this type, where we see more than one thing in the picture. If we view the
overall image, we see a human skull. When we focus on the details of the picture, we see a woman
looking in her vanity mirror. If we look at a close–up, cropped image of "All is Vanity", we don't see
the skull we just see details of a woman sitting at her dressing table. However, if we expand our
view, even without seeing the entire image, once we know we're going to see a skull, we can't help
but see it. Also, when we look at the picture from a distance, because of all the black surrounding it,
once the details of the woman get distorted we still only see a skull.
Additionally, M.C. Escher used his expertise in mathematics to create his optical illusions in art. He
was fascinated with tessellations, which are arrangements of closed shapes that completely cover the
plane without overlapping and without leaving gaps. Typically, the shapes making up a tessellation
are polygons or similar regular shapes, such as the square tiles often used on floors. Escher,

M. Escher
Tessellations all started with a man Named M.C. Escher. M.C. Escher was born on June 17, 1898 in
Leeuwarden, Netherlands. His mother Sarah and his father George Had 5 Children. M.C. was the
youngest of the five. All five of the children were boys. M.C. was really creative as a child. He was
able to see things that his brothers couldn't. He was definitely the most artistic out of all five
brothers. When Escher got older, he decided he wanted to go to school for his artistic ability. He
went to the School for Architectural and Decorative Arts in Haarlem.
While he was in school, he got into graphic arts because of his mentor Samuel Jessurun De
Mesquita. Later on in his life, he travelled to the Mediterranean in the 1920s because he was
fascinated

Sandwich Factory
The Sandwich Factory
Factories turn human beings into machines. This is the perspective of the narrator in the short story
"The Sandwich Factory" by Jason Kennedy. When mechanization is utilized to increase efficiency,
factory employees become monotone working machines and individuals become just one of many –
a crowd of insignificant people.
This assignment will begin with an analysis and interpretation of the short story "The Sandwich
Factory" by Jason Kennedy. To put the story into perspective the assignment includes a discussion
of the text, "Nice work" by David Lodge and the picture, "Relativity" by M.C. Escher. The
assignment ends with a short essay about the description of Coketown in Charles Dickens' novel
"Hard Times".
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He wishes to be the owner of a factory much like the one illustrated in the M.C. Escher picture. "(...)
arranged confusingly in the mannor of an M.C. Escher engraving (...)"[5]
There are also a few other characters who play a part in the short story – Dot and the mad man. Dot
is an employee at the factory and seems to have been for a long time. The narrator gives a shallow,
weird and maybe not so reliable description of her – describing her as slutty and with no respect for
herself. The mad man also seems to have been at the factory for some time. He is described as being
crazy and constantly trying to scare or even stab people with a knife. Again the narrator gives a less
reliable description – making him out to be a mental patient who has lost it and who only is out to
get him. Both characters represent the mechanization at the factory. They have been there for ages
and the factory has changed them. The mad man has gone crazy and Dot cannot understand the
narrator who is new in the factory and has not got to the point of being as mechanized as them yet.
Therefore Dot seeks to help him in a way that she feels will do good – by trying to get him to sleep
with someone. The narrator also mentions the job as forklift drivers at the factory. He speaks of it as
the biggest achievement possible for the employees at the factory. This shows how primitive the
people are with no real values in life. "They would sit in the canteen with a little leaflet, dreaming of

Bad Decisions In M. Escher's Psychology Of Evil
Bad Decisions A person's decisions and actions influence people around them. Therefore, if a person
makes bad decisions, then the people they associate with will most likely do the same thing. People
choose who they hang around. If they are surrounded by negative people, they are going to make
negative decisions. Not everyone thinks of the consequences that their actions are going to cause.
Evil is more dramatic in some more than others if they have negative people or subjects in their life.
People have the capacity of acting negatively towards people when they get in certain moods. If
they are angry, than the actions they are going to commit will be evil. We all have evil within us but
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In this article "Psychology of Evil" written by M.C Escher, talks about how people who are
controlled by a high power have a tendency to commit acts of evil that are rational. The title of the
article was called Stanford Prison Experiment. This article tells the audience about how these
teenagers and college students volunteered to be in this experiment where they have to split up and a
half of the students act as prisoners and the other half acts as the security guards. Many people quit
because it was too much for them. The guards took advantage because they felt more powerful when
they wore a badge and a spectacular uniform. They were acting upon evil inside them because they
thought they had the authority to axt like they did. "The participants adapted to their roles
immediately: the guards enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some of the
prisoners to psychological torture; many of the prisoners accepted psychological abuse" (Escher 3).
This is explaining how prisoners were being abused and they were perfectly okay with it. The
guards (college students) acted upon their evil inside which is proved because they took advantage
of the "prisoners". "The request of the guards, readily harassed other prisoners who attempted to
prevent it. Two of the prisoners quit the experiment early and the entire experiment was abruptly
stopped after six days" (Escher 3). This shows that the abuse got so horrific that the students could
not take it any longer. No matter what is happening, pessimistic or not, people will still commit sins
of

Inception Film Analysis
The Dark Knight wasn't the only time that Nolan was inspired by art on how to express his story
cinematically. His film Inception features a classic optical illusion called the Penrose staircase
(impossible staircase), which folds back upon itself in space. "The only job that was ever of interest
to me other than filmmaking is architecture". Inception is a heist movie, but heist movies are usually
unemotional. They tend to be glamourous and deliberately superficial. Nolan wanted to deliver a
more emotional narrative, instead of the usual heist story where the hero's journey and the heist are
based around the MacGuffin (the desired object), they were instead based on emotion. Part of that
emotion came from M.C. Escher's Ascending and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
In Ascending and Descending its whether the monks will ever ascend or if the two down below will
choose to conform. Nolan used those "what if" questions to construct his world, and in one the films
sequences you can really see Escher's influence on Nolan, "Are you really sure that a floor can't also
be a ceiling?" (M.C. Escher). In the scene, the staircase is introduced by Arthur (Joseph Gordon–
Levitt) to Ariadne (Ellen Page) to construct a never–ending dreamscape within an otherwise finite
world. While impossible to build on our real world, it has not stopped people from depicting this
illusion, "I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create
a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed". In both scenes the steps
forever carry the traveler(s) upward in a loop. When you're looking at these works, there are four
ways you can interpret them: the most real, mostly real, mostly dream, and full dream. Most real,
Cobbs wife is dead, and he can return to his family in reality. The monks are climbing a destroyed
building and don't realize it. Mostly real, Cobb is stuck in limbo and does not make it back to his
children. The monks are trapped on a destroyed staircase. Mostly dream, what Cobb thinks is reality
is reality, but when he tries a sedative he gets trapped in a

Campbell's Tomato Soup: Pop Art Analysis
Bond of Union is an optical illusion otherwise known as op art made from Mc Escher in Germanie
1956. Bond of Union was drawn then painted and was made when he was going through a
relationship. Campbell's tomato soup is a form of pop art made from Andy Warhol, in Bridgeton,
New Jersey 1898. Campbell's tomato was first sketched, not knowing that it was going to turn into a
piece of pop art that is on the shop walls today. Bond of Union uses the colours black, grey and
white and is very dull but on the other hand Campbell's tomato soup includes the colours red, white
and black and is very bright, striking and vibrant. Bond of Union has Two–dimensional shapes seem
three–dimensional as they surround the hollow form of the heads. The swirls

Mc Escher Research Paper
Carter Goebel Art History 3/7/18 Mrs. Wood Biography of M.C. Escher Growing up as the son of a
civil engineer is tough especially when you do not do well in school or like math, luckily some of
his fathers intelligence rubbed off on Escher because most of his work employs the help of complex
mathematical equations. All M.C. Escher painting use some form of complex mathematical
equation, he uses these equations so that his lines and proportions can be completely perfect. He was
actually quite popular with mathematicians before art critics because they appreciated the perfection
in his art. Although, Escher did not completely understand the equations he was using so when he
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In 1903 his family moved to a town named Arnheim where he grew up being called Mauk, a
nickname given to him because of his constant childhood sickness as he even attended a special
school starting in 1907. Growing up Escher took Piano lessons and even some Carpentry
apprenticeships until his early teens, he received very poor marks and even failed the second grade.
His exceptional art skills carried him through most of his academic career. He began college in 1918
where he first studied Architecture but as a result of a persistent skin infection he failed several key
classes and decided to begin decorative art school under the wing of another graphic artist. Early
college was not a complete waste of time for Escher as it turns out, this is where he first learned to
make woodcuts, a skill which is invaluable in the art of making Woodcuts, Lithographs, and
Mezzotints. Escher drew much of his influence from the time he spent touring Italy and falling in
love with the geometric architecture and buildings. Escher met, married and had a son with his first
wife, Jetta Umiker, during his 12 year stay in Rome. Escher became unhappy in Italy when Benito
Mussolini took power and the government ideals changed to largely nationalist and fascist ideas that
would later lead to Italy's involvement in WWII as they fought with the axis

Characteristics Of Erges And Escher
Part III. Modernism, Postmodernism and Escher:
Relate Escher's lithographs Magic Mirror, Print Gallery, Waterfall and Relativity to Borges and
Kafka's work. What aspects and/or themes of their work could these prints illustrate? What
Modernist and Postmodernist characteristics do you find in them?
Mauritius Cornelis (M.C.) Escher was a Dutch artist that focused on drawing and printmaking. In
correlation with Escher's work, the themes of his pieces often centered the impossible. These
creative ideas present Modernist and Postmodernist characteristics, as they draw on the
subconscious and fragmentary nature of human life. In the lithograph Magic Mirror, there is a large
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In this work, Marquez focuses on corruption as Senator Onesimo Sanchez accepts pay offs from his
people. As specified by the text, "In this story he is clearly a corrupt politician who accepts bribes
and stays in power by helping the local property owners avoid reform" (2053). Accordingly, in the
text, Sanchez speaks at a rally and knowingly presents promises that he does not intend to keep. In
the text, it states,"We will no longer be foundlings in our own country, orphans of God in a realm of
thirst and bad climate, exiles in our own land. We will be different people, ladies and gentlemen, we
will be a great and happy people," (2056). This quote emphasizes that Sanchez deceives his people
in order to stay in power. Additionally, Sanchez encounters Nelson Farina, who is an escaped
convict that continuously begs him for a false–identification card. Thus, Farina sends his daughter,
Laura, to seduce Sanchez into providing him with an ID. However, Laura is wearing a chastity–belt
that her father uses to persuade Sanchez into delivering his request. Ultimately, these ideas relate to
the theme of corruption as Sanchez relays and performs deals based on his own satisfaction. Another
theme within the story is loneliness. This theme is prominent in the work, because Sanchez suffers
alone due to his underlying alienation. Sanchez is a husband and a father, yet he never tells any of
them that he has six months and eleven days to live.

Mental Disorders: Hearing Voices In The Mind
Hearing voices in the mind is the most common type of hallucination in people with mental health
conditions such as schizophrenia. The voice can be critical, complementary or neutral, and may
make potentially harmful commands or engage the person in conversation. They may give a running
commentary on the person's actions. Hearing voices is a well–recognised symptom of
schizophrenia, dementia or bipolar disorder, but can be unrelated to mental illness.
The experience is usually very distressing, but it's not always negative. Some people who hear
voices are able to live with them and get used to them, or may consider them a part of their life. It's
not uncommon for recently bereaved people to hear voices, and this may sometimes be the voice of
their loved one.
5–13% of adults will hear voices at a certain age in their lives. in circumstances, it may be related to
spiritual experiences, bereavement, trauma, sensory deprivation or impairment, as well as mental
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Still others communicate by writing things down. Since the voices can manifest at any time of day,
voice hearers must think of practical solutions to deal with them without alarming colleagues and
people around them. Some choose to wear Bluetooth headsets so they can speak aloud in public
without causing alarm, while others simply talk into their mobile phones.
The Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) originated in a collaboration between the Dutch social
psychiatrist Marius Romme, researcher Sandra Escher, and voice–hearer Patsy Hage, in partnership
with numerous individuals with lived experience of hearing voices (auditory verbal hallucinations
[AVH]) Romme and Escher presented a developmental phase model of coping with voices, they
belief that voices are not a symptom of disease but rather a response to troubling life experiences
and their treatment method of listening and responding to the voices is remains far outside the

M. C. Escher Tessellation
Tessellations are some of the most intriguing and thought provoking creations ever done by artists. A
tessellation by definition is when a plane is covered by repeated congruent shapes. The
distinguishing property of a tessellation is that all the shapes are similar and there are no gaps or
overlaps in the pattern. Tessellations have occurred in nature since the dawn of time. Tessellations
can be found in large patterns such as skin cells or scales on a fish or in small tight patterns such as
rectangular plant cells. Tessellations were introduced into artistic creations during the late 19th and
early 20th century by acclaimed artist M.C. Escher. After they were introduced artistically they were
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Escher was a visionary at the very least. Born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands in 1898 he was
pressured to get into architecture when he was young. After finishing high school he went on to
study at the Haarlem School for Architect and Decorative Arts. There he developed a taste for
interesting patterns and started to create his own. M.C. Escher also made large contributions to the
areas of math, art and design. Escher had a special talent for creating visually interesting paintings
and works of art. He did this by applying math and developing them around concepts such as
transformation or a physically impossibly construction. He traveled to Italy where he gained further
inspiration for his art and then met his wife and married her there. Italian architecture was the
central focus of many of his pieces during the early 20th century. Mr. Escher has many famous
pieces of art to his name; I will name and describe a few. A woodcut I actually remember seeing
when I was younger was actually one of his creations. Created in 1938 "Sky and Water" was an
image where you saw birds in the sky and fish in the water. The interesting part of this image was
that the gap between the fish was shaped like the bird and the gap between the birds was shaped like
the fish. All he did after that was draw in detail to the ones that were supposed to be birds and the
ones that were supposed to be

M. C. Escher's Art Analysis
One of the most influential graphic artists of their time was M.C. Escher. Many of his pieces include
impossible geometric contradictions as well as mesmerizing architectural anomalies that would be
almost impossible to duplicate in real life. Many of his pieces included perspective elements
influenced with the use of mirrored surfaces creating distorted views of his own sight. A few pieces
that stand out most are the Hand with Reflecting Sphere, Still Life and Street, Balcony, Bookplate,
and Still Life with Mirror. Along with his art, his journey to becoming the artist he was known to be
was an incredible story. M.C. Escher, his full name Maurits Cornelis Escher, was born on June 17th,
1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (Biography, 2015). He ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net
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In his piece, Still Life and Street (m.c.escher.com, 2015), created in 1937, we can see exactly how
well he understood these components. This piece shows objects on what appears to be a railing,
however upon closer examination the objects are resting on the street in front of two similar
buildings, while creating multiple perspective points. The layout gives the audience the illusion of
looking down a city alleyway from a distance. In this piece we can see how he uses tones to create
the illusion of structure by playing with light and dark and reflective light. He also starts the image
with a close up view of books and playing cards that gradually turn into larger books that seem to be
resting right up against the two buildings, giving the illusion that they are transforming into the

Taking a Look at Tessellations
Most people recognize the artistry of walls in ancient palaces, of mosaic pictures, and even of
honeycombs. Likewise, the artistry and intricacies of M.C. Escher's drawings astound most people.
When we look at these objects and artwork we recognize the shapes within them; we see squares,
hexagons and other shapes without giving them much thought. We might not even know that these
patterns of shapes have a name, and we certainly do not think of mathematics when we see them.
But, in fact, these patterns – or tessellations – are part of the field of geometry.
When a space is covered with a pattern of flat shapes with no overlaps or gaps it is known as a
tessellation or a tilling. Tessellations have been around for many centuries and in many different
cultures and are still prevalent today. In Latin the word tesserae means small stone cube they were
used to make up tessellata– the mosaic pictures forming floors and tiling in Roman buildings.
Making a repeating pattern with a regular polygon creates regular tessellations. Triangles, squares
and hexagons are the only three shapes that can make a regular tessellation. In order for a
tessellation to be regular the pattern is identical at each vertex. A tessellation created with two or
more regular polygons is known as a semi–regular tessellation. Just like in a regular tessellation in a
semi–regular tessellation the pattern at each vertex is the same. The third type of tessellation is a
demi regular tessellation however

Essay On Labyrinth
MISE EN SCENE
The different elements of mise en scene including location, characters and props all adhere to the
common conventions of the fantasy genre. The director of 'Labyrinth' utilizes saturated hues
throughout the trailer to reveal the genre of fantasy as saturated hues are a common convention of
fantasy films. This is also used in the trailer for The Neverending Story to increase the colour and
abnormality of the strange creatures in the film. The film trailer opens with a girl falling down a
hole, playing on the fears of the audience there are dark hands grabbing her as she falls, the dark
colour has negative connotations and represent 'bad' or 'evil' objects. The darkness in her
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We are presented with a slightly low angle close up of the antagonist from the point of view of the
main protagonist to portray him as superior, magic, powerful yet evil. This shot type is also used in
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone of Harry Potter to exaggerate his physical size and portray him
as powerful. This close–up shot works in conjunction with costuming, hair and backlighting to
further portray these ideas. The slightly low angle in the Escher staircase is oppressive to make the
antagonist appear larger, more powerful and strong which makes the protagonist feel small. The
antagonist is breaking the fourth wall as he is looking directly into the camera, this positions the
audience in the film trailer creating an emotional response, to further heighten the intensity of the
effect, this works in conjunction with the narrator's dialogue when he says 'they will take you into...
the world of labyrinth'. The main protagonist undergoes her own hero's journey alongside the big
ginger friendly monster which is her 'helper' in reference to Propp's character types. The overuse of
mid–shots reveals that the main protagonist is in the midst of all the action and chaos. We are
presented with an over the shoulder shot when the main protagonist says 'there's nothing to be afraid
of' when in that same moment we see the ginger monster in the background fall into a hole in the
earth, this ironic moment has comedic elements appealing to the target demographic which is a
younger audience along with the use of

M. C. Escher Art Works
M.C. Escher Mr. M.C. Escher known for being one of the world's most famous graphic artiest. His
art is easily being enjoyed by millions around the world today. He was born on the 17th of June
1898, in the Holland. Mr. Escher became famous for his 'impossible' constructions, for instance:
Ascending and Descending, Relativity. Then for his Transformation Prints, for example:
Metamorphosis l, Metamorphosis ll, and Metamorphosis lll, Sky & Water l, and Reptiles. During his
life time he made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings, and more then 200 sketches and
drawings. He was also left handed, which only 8 to 15% of people are left handed. What is a
tessellation? Did Escher use this in his art work? A tessellation is a shape used repeatedly ... Show
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The "Eight Heads" created in 1922, by Escher would be an example of this. There are, of course
eight heads, four facing to the north and four facing to the south. Another used in his work was
reflection. Reflection meaning a translation that creates a mirrored image, its like looking into the
mirror, put your hand on your right should its going to appear in the mirror as if it was on your left.
The " Wild West" created in 1920 is an example, people are facing another as if they were being
reflected. Another being rotation, a figure that is turned about a fixed point. It can be in the process
or in the act of turning, or even circling around a fixed point. "Lizard" created in 1942, Escher used
several colors to show change and movement in this painting. The are moving from at least and 90
degree fixed pointed a 180 degree fixed point. Last but not least, Dilation. Is a the same figure as the
original, but a different size, if the dilation creates a larger image then it is known as a enlargement.
"Thinking Outside the Box" is a perfect example. In the image a man is holding a larger dox while
the floor is based pattern is smaller box. Mr. Escher later died in 27 March of 1972, in the
Neverland's. After losing his battle to cancer, died at the age of 72. Giving the world three sons,

Art Analysis Of Lihograph By M. C. Escher
This piece was created by M.C. Escher using a lithograph. This is a very detailed piece of art. If you
look in the center–to the bottom–you can see two hidden lizards. Although, there is also other
hidden parts if you look closely. This piece would be in the genre capriccio which is living piece of
music, as you can see the little boy holding the trumpet. Also, the style of this piece is surrealism
which is a movement in art. This piece of art was created using a lithograph. It also has lots of
movement. For example, when you look at it your eyes follow the staircases, it doesn't matter if you
are going up or down. M.C. Escher repeated the stairs so your eyes could follow the movement then
he had little things on the side for you to notice.

The Genius of M.C. Escher Essays
The Genius of M.C. Escher
Mathematics is the central ingredient in many artworks. While notions of infinity and parallel lines
brought "perspective" to the artistic realm in creating realistic representations of depth and
dimension, mathematics has influenced art in a more definite way – by actually becoming art. The
introduction of fractal geometry and tessellations as creative works spawned the creation of new and
innovative genres of art, which can be exemplified through the works of M.C Escher. Escher's
pieces are among the most recognized works of art today. While visually stimulating and deeply
meaningful, his art reflects many ideas of mathematics through geometry, symmetry, and patterns.
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He once said, "Although I am absolute innocent of training or knowledge in the exact sciences, I
often seen to have more in common with mathematicians than my fellow artist" (Totally Tessellated:
Escher Biography & Timeline, 1998).
Finally, in 1930, Escher received widespread acclaim for his lithograph entitled Castrovolva. He
continued to incorporate geometry and patterns in his pieces, and found that his work began to be
displayed in science museums rather than art galleries. From 1951–1954 Escher completed some
400 works, by this time a prominent figure in the world of art, the majority of which included such
mathematical principles as polyhedra, infinity, knots, and tessellations.
A polygon is a closed figure bounded by three or more straight line segments. A polyhedron is a
geometric entity composed of polygons connected at their edges to enclose space. Among the most
popular piece that exemplifies the use of polyhedra is entitled Gravity (Figure 1:
http://library.advanced.org/16661/escher/trends/1/html) In this Escher work, dinosaur–like creatures
emerge from a series of pyramids fit together like a star.
Along with polyhedrons, Escher also incorporated the idea of infinity into numerous pieces.
Fascinated by the concept of bounding infinity, that is representing infinity in an enclosed plane,
Escher attempted to demonstrate this in his work. He once

Tessellations: Maurits Cornelis Escher In Modern Art
Tessellations are are type of drawing that are formed when a shape is repeated over and over,
covering a plane without any spaces or overlaps. In modern day tessellations are also known as
tiling. M.C Escher is the main person and creator behind tessellations. Maurits Cornelis Escher was
born in 1898 on July 17 in Leeuwarden Netherlands. M.C Escher was born in the age of modern art.
Escher was known at a younger age, to visualize distinct spatial patterns. Escher was a very smart
man as well and attended Harlem's School for Architectural and Decorative Arts. Later Escher found
a wife, by the name of Jetta Umiker on his visit in spain and established his home in Rome. His
artistic side of him strated At Harlem's school, where he thrived

Tessellations: M. C. Escher
Tessellations Paige E Heinrichs Benton High School The creator and founder of tessellations is a
Dutch artist named M.C. Escher. His real name is Maurits Cornelis Escher. He was born in
Leeuwarden, Netherlands. He was able to pick out spatial patterns since he was a child. He then
went to Haarlem School for Architectural and Decorative Arts. He decided to study graphic arts with
the recommendation of his mentor, Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita.(The Biography. Com Editors).
His early works included nudes and innovative portraiture captured in woodcuts, linoleum cuts, and
lithographs. As he grew older he had travelled to the Mediterranean and was influenced by the
Moor–designed Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. He had moved to Rome to start a ... Show more
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Tessellation means to form or arrange small squares in a checkered or mosaic pattern (Coolman). A
regular tessellation is is just a picture made up of regular shapes and is made up of three regular
shapes; equilateral triangle, square, and a regular hexagon, a semi regular is made up of one or more
than one kind of polygon, a monohedral is only one shape, and a aperiodic is a repeating pattern. In
a tessellation you can't have any white spots showing and it has to consist of the same pattern
throughout the picture People from all over the world use tessellations in their artwork that represent
their country. Some of the people that use them are the Irish, Arabs, Indians, and Chinese. They all
practice different levels of complexity of tessellations. Another word for tessellations is tilings.
Some examples of a tessellation are the tiles on the bathroom floor or flagstones in a patio
(Mackenzie). They can also be used for a design in fabric or wallpaper. Mirror symmetry is another
way to show tessellations. The most common tessellation used is the regular tessellation because it
is the easiest and most

M. Escher's Art
Introduction Mc Escher's art is very well known. Perhaps you have seen some of his art, but never
actually realized whose art it was. I like how he incorporated math in his artwork, and that is one of
the reason I chose him. We will be covering his not as well known childhood, later life, and his
phases of art. First, we will be traveling back to the Beginning; Mc Escher's birth. Early Life
Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on June 17th, 1898, Leeuwarden, Friesland. His parents were
George Arnold Escher and Sarah Gleichman. His 4 brothers were scientists, which would explain
the reason he used math in his art. When he was 5, his family moved to Arnhem. His grades were
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It would be impossible to cover them all, so the pieces that been selected are his most well known.
At first, Escher focused on linoleum prints and wood cuts. In these he used black and white to his
advantage. While studying at Haarlem, he worked on dividing planes; essentially making shapes fit
within each other, as seem in his wood cut Eight heads. After studying at Haarlem, he briefly
worked on the theme Creation, making two pieces on that theme. The reason he decided to do these
pieces is because his brother died in the Alps, and he had to travel there to identify the body. He also
worked on some self portraits. While he lived in Italy, his work went through an Italian period where
he drew landscapes dotted with buildings. Around that time he made one of his most well known
pieces Hand with a Reflecting Sphere. After that, he worked more thoroughly on dividing planes, in
the pieces Metamorphosis 1, which shows a town morphing into blocks, into 2 dimensional shapes,
and into dolls, and Day and Night, which shows two flocks of birds flying in opposite directions.
After that he made his famous piece Reptiles, which is known for its lizard tessellation. He is also
known for his famous hands drawing hands piece. On the same year he made the piece Stars, which
depicts 2 chameleons trapped inside a three octahedra compound. This piece shows his interest in
advanced 3 dimensional shapes. He made his piece relativity including impossible staircases. In the
1960s, he suffered from poor health while making his last piece, Snakes, showing three intertwined
snakes. His most famous works feature impossible objects such as the penrose triangle, explorations
of infinity seen in his piece Ants on a mobius strip, Reflection, seen in his Hand With a Reflecting
Sphere, and tessellations, seen in Reptiles and many

Brain Store Memory
Review of Literature How does the brain store memories? How does the brain remember them?
These are some extremely important questions. The brain, part of the nervous system, makes use of
memories in many different ways. When memories are recollected for a certain purpose, focus is
essential for the brain. Geometric figures are focused by the brain and additionally the eye. How the
brain focuses objects can have an association to the memories that the brain remembers and how
they are triggered. Memory functions deep inside the brain, and geometric shapes are just a small
part of how the brain focuses. To see how to brain acts when given the task to focus on geometric
figures, and remember long–term skill memories, an experimental test can be administered to see
how geometric figures have an impact on the brain's speed of memory retrieval. The data collected
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In addition, a famous artist named Maurits Cornelis Escher became famous due to his drawn
tessellations. Psychologists enjoy working with tessellations because the illusions in the tessellations
assist them in studying how people look and perceive the world ("Escher", 2015).
The eye perceives geometric figures as shapes in different forms. Just looking at the contour design
of the geometric figure makes the eye focus on the figure (Rock, 2014). Sensory psychologists have
identified brain cells that catch contours of a figure in the eye, so some people believe that form
perception is just spotting a figure's contours (Rock, 2014). Some object features are its colors,
edges, and motions. However, the object features are "processed in entirely different regions of the
brain" (Rock, 2014).
Mental activity takes place whilst a person is awake. Mental exercise is a set of fixed exercises and
mental techniques used to improve certain functions of the brain (Fernandez & Goldberg,

Alhambras Research Paper
Tesselations can be found in paintings, project and kids items. Tesselations can be grouped into two
things "real things" like people, housepets, and pencils. He earliest tessellations were stone floors,
walls, and brick walls. In Roman times Tessellatios often made pictures, The pictures were usually
grouped of simple colored square tiles. The group of pictures were very large. It was viewed as like
a battlefield. Screens such as tv's and computers are the same, they are large screens made of pixels.
The first kind of tessellation is called Escher–Style or Representational art. In that kind of
tesselation each tile likes real and each tile has a repeating shape. Escher invented it and made it
popular in Western Culture. The 2nd kind of tessellation Way older then the first and it is called
Islamic tessellation or also known as geometric tessellation, or alhambra style. Becaus eof these
discoveryes Escher is know one of the most famous tessellator of tiles shaped like things that look ...
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The geometric art of Alhambras is not "real things". The abstract art looks very good between math
and geometry being interwoven. Its like the the Mona Lisa with how inspiring tesselations can be.
Its not difficult to think of how it could become a idol or a cool object. Alhambra will always
become a tourists attraction, and many talk about the awe of tesselations. If a whole tile is mostly
organic then it needs to be original witht he corners or walls so observers are quickly to guess or see
what of leftovers of the simple geometric cell. The first tessellation shapes flat lines and very sharp
corners. The artist should not show that they are not being lazy and that they are just rearranging the
tiles toward a specific artistic goal. Unless it looks meaningless, flavorless blob or just a minor
tweaking of a simple geometric shape, so it wont be

M C Escher Relativity
What makes art so interesting to every individual? Perhaps it is due to the fact that an object, color,
or theme can represent something to one person while at the same time could mean something
completely different to another person. Allow me to describe one of my personal favorite works of
art, which would be "Relativity" by M.C. Escher in 1953. One of the first things that you will notice
are the numerous amount of stairs drawn throughout the drawing, while also going in multiple
directions. To which I believe represents the steps one has to take throughout life. Also there are a
vast amount of entrances or exits depending on which way you're coming from, at the bottom or top
of every set of stairs. Another object that Escher drew in his

Maurits Cornelis Escher 's World 's Most Famous Graphic...
Maurits Cornelis Escher, most commonly know as M.C. Escher, is one of the world's most famous
graphic artists. Born June 17 1898. in Leeuwarden Netherlands, M.C. Escher developed a system of
drawing and organizing pictures in mathematically congruent patterns. This idea toyed with
tessellations and spacing in pictures. A tessellation is collection of one or more tiles, or shapes used
as patterns, which are organized side by side with no gaps and no overlapping. The outcome ends up
being a collection of repeated shapes that acts as an illusion or nauseous design.
In young ages Maurits was a very visual and creative child. He attended Haarlem's School for
Agricultural and Decorative Arts. Escher studied graphic arts and at the age of 24 designed his first
famous piece known as "Eight Heads". "Eight Heads" is a tessellation that depicts both a man and a
women side by side in traditional 1900's clothing.
In 1923 he traveled to the mediterranean where he met Jetta Umiker and married a year later,
eventually having three children. The following year he settled in Rome with his wife and children
where he was able to strictly focus on his arts. He was very good with the manipulation of
perspective and orientation and his paintings and drawings were often designed to amuse and
confuse. An example of this is a drawing well known as relativity. Relativity portrays a series of
staircases and platforms where it appears as if the gravity and
Maurits was not always a good

Escher and His Use of “Metaphor”-phosis Essays
Escher and His Use of "Metaphor"–phosis
The driving force behind life is the constant process of change. We see the process of
metamorphosis on all levels. We see days turn into nights, babies grow into adults, caterpillars
morph into butterflies, and on an even grander scale, the biological evolution of species. The process
of metamorphosis connects two completely diverse entities, serving as a bridge between the two.
Day and night are connected by evening, the slow sinking of the sun in the sky. In a typical life
cycle, birth and death are bridged by various life stages, including infancy, childhood, adolescence,
adulthood, and finally old age. Black can be morph into white through a series of graduations of
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Escher gladly did so, as he had only taken up architecture to please his father. Escher studied under
Jessurum de Mesquita from 1919 until 1922. After he had concluded his studies, he traveled
extensively, mostly in Italy. Escher took up residence in Rome from the early twenties until the mid–
thirties. While residing there, he made it a tradition to make a journey to the Italian countryside
every spring. He traveled long distances on foot in many areas of southern Italy that were not
popular for travel at the time. During these explorations, Escher made drawings of whatever
interested him, mainly the Italian countryside and the architecture, which fascinated him to draw.
During the winters, he would convert the drawings and rough sketches into woodprints. In 1935, the
rise of Fascism caused Escher to leave Italy and move to Switzerland. A year later, he made the last
of his long study trips, this time on an ocean freighter along the coast of Italy to Spain. On this trip,
he encountered several prints created in Spain in the Middle Ages that held a special interest for him
and later inspired many of his tessellation pieces. In 1937, Escher moved to a small town near
Brussels, returned to Brussels in 1941, and moved a final time in 1970, to Laren, located in the
Netherlands. After 1937, Escher traveled a great deal less frequently, leaving home only for
vacations, to visit his children living abroad, or on lecture circuits. His

M.C. Escher Essay
M.C. Escher occupies a unique spot among the most popular artists of the past century. While his
contemporaries focused on breaking from traditional art and its emphasis on realism and beauty,
Escher found his muse in symmetry and infinity. His attachment to geometric forms made him one
of modernism's most recognizable artists and his work remains as relevant as ever.
Escher's early works are an odd mix of cubism and traditional woodcut. From these beginnings, one
could already note Escher's fondness for repetition and clean shapes. While simple and exploratory,
these works were the signs of a nascent art career.
Beginning in the mid–1930s, Escher's work turned very pointedly to the style we associate with him
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Something that recurs references itself. The reflection in a mirror of a mirror is recursive: the
reflected mirror is reflecting its own image and doing so indefinitely. You've also likely seen the
Droste effect when using camcorders hooked up to a TV or a computer: when the camcorder is
looking at the screen, you can see an infinite series of screens generate themselves, since the
camcorder is recording the same image that it's sending to the screen. The game Portal is a great
example of recursion, when two portals could be opened side by side in a narrow space and looking
in either one produced an infinite series of the same image.
Escher combined recursion and pattern repetition in a unique way. Some of the works featuring this
combination exhibits some complex mathematical and physical ideas, but to the casual viewer the
works are sublime. The swans image above features this sort of combination. Note that the swans
are tiled very precisely, with the same distance from adjacent swans and swans in the next row. Note
also that they are in a closed loop, which is one construct made possible with recursion.
The above image is an example of the Mandelbrot set. The Mandelbrot set, along with other sets, is
an example of a fractal. Fractals are fundamentally based on the idea of infinite recursion. If you
zoom in to a particular spot in the fractal, you'll perhaps see a different arrangement of patterns, but
you would still be able to

M. C. Escher Tessellations
Have you ever looked into the concepts behind what makes a tessellation? Tessellations are made
using a combination of artistic and mathematical abilities. M.C. Escher was a talented man from the
Netherlands who made tessellations. He made such interesting art pieces of various types by using
mathematical concepts and artistic details. M.C. Escher's techniques on his tessellations made them
stand out to viewers. M.C. Escher was born in 1898 as Maurits Cornelis Escher ("Biography"). He
was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands ("Escher, Section 1"). As a student, Escher was not
particularly skilled in mathematics, even though, later in life, he used many mathematical concepts
to create his art ("Escher, Section 1"). Escher was a skilled artist at an early age, and both his family
and teachers recognized his remarkable abilities ("Escher, Section 1"). During his lifetime, M.C.
Escher lived in several countries in Europe, including the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, and
Belgium ("Escher, Section 1"). M.C. Escher died in 1972 ("Biography"). He was seventy–four years
old and he died in North Laren, Netherlands ("Escher, Section 1"). M.C. Escher was an influential ...
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Escher was also a skilled mathematician, since he applied his mathematical knowledge to his art in
order to make it pop. Though Escher was not an exemplary mathematics student during elementary
school, he improved and began to demonstrate mathematical concepts in his art ("M.C. Escher.").
Escher made his images lighter as they approached the edge of his canvas so the viewer's eye would
be drawn to the center of the piece of art ("M.C. Escher."). Some of Escher's artwork is symmetrical.
Escher also made images smaller as they approached the end of the canvas, or towards the middle
("M.C. Escher."). He made so many images in one piece of art that the viewer might think the
images would repeat infinitely. All in all, Escher employs multiple mathematical concepts to make
his art

The Debilitating Experience of Hearing Voices in One's Head
Hearing voices is considered to be a defining symptom of having a mental illness. The experience of
these voices can often be categorised as a debilitating condition that can cause an extreme impact on
daily life by weakening or disrupting contact with reality (Kalhovde, Elstad and Talseth 2013).
However, according to the Mental Health Foundation (N.D) this is not always the case as many
people hear voices but never find them to be a problem or feel as if they need to seek help from
mental health services.
In order for this assignment to be written, a visualisation was produced as part of the process. The
idea behind this was to create a strong focus on one particular aspect of a mental health issue which
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Romme and Escher (1989) focused particularly on the idea of hearing voices and spent a lot of time
gathering research around this subject. They indicated that most people who heard voices had
suggested that it had begun quite suddenly, yet it became a moment that they remembered well
because of that reason. Many believed that their voice hearing had begun because of a traumatic or
emotional event, such as an accident, divorce or death or other events such as illness, being in love,
moving or pregnancy. These types of reasons are things that people may not experience everyday
but could be faced with at some point during their life time, suggesting that hearing voices is
somewhat a common occurrence and not as unusual as what society perceive it to be.
Various different experiments have taken place in order to shed some light on this controversial
topic and address coping mechanisms that are used in order for people to manage their voice hearing
effectively. An attempt was also made to highlight the differences between those who are mentally
ill and are familiar with hearing voices and those who have had no diagnosis of mental illness, yet
still experience similar hallucinations. Firstly, Romme and Escher (1989 cited in Kalhovde, Elstad
and Talseth 2013) "introduced the perspective that hearing voices is a reaction to problems in life
and need not be a symptom of a mental disorder". An experiment was put

M. C. Escher
There are all different factors, parts, and names for tessellations. But let's start with the beginning.
Who created tessellations? M.C. Escher was an artist and extremely creative, considering he was the
one who created tessellations. M.C. Escher was "...a 20th–century dutch illustrator whose innovate
works explored echoing patterns perception, space, and transformation." M.C. Escher worked on
many different things with many different views including "...engravings and prints that captured
natural landscapes and architecture, startlingly playing with perspective, orientation and shadow."
M.C. Escher was a genius. There are all different factors that go in with tessellations. There are
regular tessellations, semi–regular tessellations, monohedral tessellations, duals, M.C. Escher and
modified monohedral tessellation and aperiodic tessellations. A regular tessellation has "...three
regular shapes...: the equilateral triangle, the square and the regular hexagon." The "[s]emi– regular
tessellations are made of more than one kind of regular tessellations." There are more tessellations
and different rules that come into play when making them, but they all ... Show more content on
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The plane of a tessellation also known as space " is any subdivision of the plane..into regions or
"cells" that border each other exactly, with no gaps in between" When people think of tessellations
they often think of mirror symmetry, although it's not the only one "[o]ther kinds include
translational symmetry...; rotation symmetry...; and glide symmetry." Translational symmetry is
when you can move the entire pattern. Rotational symmetry can be rotated around a fixed point.
Glide symmetry "the pattern can first be reflected and then shifted (translated) along the axis of
reflection." All of these different tessellations are different and have a unique pattern and look to

Mc Escher Tessellation Essay
A tessellation is a pattern put together by identical shapes that fit together perfectly with no gaps or
overlaps. M.C. Escher is the man who created the idea of tessellations, who is a Dutch graphic
design artist. He had a very tough early life since he suffered from very common skin infections,
which in turn caused him to do very poor in his core curriculum. Although he was very bad in his
main subjects, he excelled in his music and art classes. As an artist, M.C. Escher began by drawing
landscapes primarily of nature. After a few years of this, he decided to go in a different variety of art
by using the dimensional planes to his advantage to create illusions and trick the eye. He would
sketch landscapes of Italy from very unique perspectives that alter reality, later he would sketch
artwork from his mind rather than looking at nature. His form of artwork is commonly referred to as
"impossible reality". He mainly worked with lithographs and woodcuts, lithograph is an ... Show
Escher tessellation is called, "reptiles" which is actually a tessellation inside of another drawing. In
this drawing, there is a tessellation drawn on the table, made up of lizards. Then, the lizards appear
to be coming out of the drawing and wrap around back into the tessellation. This tessellation is made
up of many geometric shapes; such as many circles, squares and triangles, but the main geometric
figures used to create this tessellation are thousands of dots and lines. This drawing is a mezzotint
which is made by hatching, layering lines and dots. The mathematics behind this certain tessellation
can get pretty complicated. Escher's work mainly involves the mathematics of the geometry of space
and planes. In this tessellation, it is evident how the planes change as the lizards go into the
tessellation and leave. "Lizards" would be classified as an irregular tessellation, something that
Escher was very interested in, where the tessellation interacts and often leaves the

Gödel Escher And Bach Final Response
Yusheng Hu
Prof. Marshall
May 2, 2016
FYS
Final Response I'd like to say first of all that this is a very unusual book, and it's very difficult to
categorize. It's not quite popular science because its most current content is something like a
hundred years old; it's not really a literary work either because it is essentially about logic and
artificial intelligence. You can't call it science or engineering because two thirds of the book's title
are given over to music and art. Therefore, this book is a product of the peculiar nature of Gödel,
Escher, and Bach. Indeed, it is a work that can itself only be described through recursion. No matter
how circuitous the author's route, Gödel, Escher, and Bach are ultimately tools for understanding
mathematical logic. The author has written so hard to produce a book that really only asks a single
question, in the end "Is it possible for self–reference or recursion to become a shortcut for
researching artificial intelligence, and even the sophisticated human brain?" And yet from beginning
to end he was still unable to find an answer; he wrote hundreds of pages, and still no answer.
Because I was never particularly interested in this type of book, I read it much like one would read
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Instead of just discussing about artificial intelligence, Hofstadter includes a lot of diverse topics.
While reading it, I have often had to put up with feelings of ignorance and unsatisfied curiosity;
however, if you manage to bear through these feelings you will begin to unwittingly experience the
pleasures of thought. I might not have had any answers when I finally closed the book, yet I was
able to use new ways of thinking to discover even more interesting questions all around

There Are Three Lines To Live In The Labyrinth
Notwithstanding, in the same text (we could, of course, quote many others), there is also evidence of
an acquaintance with the pre–socratic "unity of opposites" (later adapted by Nicolau of Cusa to the
idea of God), by means of which a straight line is potentially no different from a circular line (plus, a
formulation that is also reminiscent of Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion):
'There are three lines too many in your labyrinth,' he said at last. 'I know of a Greek labyrinth that is
but one straight line. So many philosophers have been lost upon that line that a mere detective might
be pardoned if he became lost as well. When you hunt me down in another avatar of our lives,
Scharlach, I suggest that you fake (or commit) one crime at A, a second crime at B, eight kilometers
from A, then a third crime at C, four kilometers from A and B and halfway between them. Then wait
for me at D, two kilometers from A and C, once again halfway between them. Kill me at D, as you
are about to kill me at Triste–le–Roy.'
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In another context, specifically concerned with reading as a process, american literary critic and
theorist Robert Scholes, adds the metaphor of a two–dimensional circle composed of "centrifugal
and centripetal postures" (Scholes 1989: 8) to the one–dimensional straight line made of backwards
and forwards. But he does not discard the latter, although he thinks that the circle "covers a lot more
territory." (8) Instead, he argues that reading is "dialectical", meaning

M. C. Escher Essay
Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898–1972) was a Dutch graphics artist who specialized in many
printmaking techniques, mainly lithographs as well as mezzotints. Like many famous artists such as
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, and Holbein, M.C. Escher was left–handed. His
trade was not limited to printmaking / graphics artist, he was also known for his book illustrations,
tapestries, postage stamps as well as murals. What makes Escher's works so intriguing is the
mathematical nature that leaves the viewers in awe, looking for reason and ways that the pieces
"work". His work can be described as "meticulous realism with enigmatic optical illusions"
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This is a paradoxical act of drawing, showing a flat piece of paper, with photo–realistic hands
drawing each–other. Showing the hands in full–detail with the cuffs and sleeves being drawn in by
each respective hand. This piece has been reinterpreted many times with different motifs such as
robotic hands building each other, or cybernetics showing a human hand drawing a robot hand and
vis versa. Escher may not have been aware of the idea of recursion: The repeated application of a
recursive procedure or definition. In this case, the hands drawing each

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relationship between the human nervous system and behavior, and an evaluation of historical figures
in the field of physiological psychology
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awareness can be complex. Understanding that there are different spectrums of consciousness and
that each type represents different principles is the best approach to understanding awareness. As the
endocrine system regulates hormones in the body, chemical fluctuations play a major role in the
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for the development and origin of physiological psychology. "One of the most important figures in
the development of experimental physiology was Johannes Muller, a nineteenth–century German
physiologist, who was a forceful advocate of the application of experimental techniques in
psychology" (Carlson, 2007). Muller was adamant that the best experimental methods in which
removing the organs of similar animals and studying how their anatomy performed when introduced
to a variety of chemicals. Muller's set of guidelines regarding detailed nerve influence was
imperative to the field of physiological psychology.
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physiology and philosophy. Although physiology and philosophy are closely relative disciplines, the
need for the identification of a specific process was necessary. Behaviorism was a key component in
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