The late Dutch artist M.C. Escher is perhaps best known for his tessellations that fool the eye, like “Sky and Water I,” where birds in the air trade off negative space with fish underwater. But there ...

To enter into the world of artist M.C. Escher, one has only to abandon all concept of natural law and prepare for a magical universe,where inside is not always recognizable from outside, top is ...

The illusion is based on a geometrical puzzle known as the Penrose tribar, from the name of the mathematician whose researches were inspired by Escher’s work. The tribar is a triangle in which each of ...

Staircases that lead to an infinite loop, divisions of plane into imaginative space, and hands that draw themselves—these are some of the images we associate with M.C. Escher. His inventive and ...

On the printed page of an art book or magazine, Escher’s work acquires a hard, mechanical coldness that exaggerates certain tendencies in his work, principally his overpowering search for visual order ...

Here’s a show that’s certain to give Brooklyn some perspective: A massive exhibition of the mathematically infused artworks of M.C. Escher (1898–1972) is coming to the borough in June. “Escher. The ...

This mind-bending first person platformer is available for free. Some independent developers/students at DigiPen have put together a new game called Perspective, which they describe as an ...

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Forced perspective is that optical illusion that can make an object appear larger, smaller, or farther away. It’s a technique that’s been used in everything from film to architecture to a Canadian ...