Lego Escher
Posted by Dan on Oct 3rd, 2008
2008
Oct 3
Andrew Lipson has some great Lego sculptures, including this version of Escher’s Relativity.
Unlike many of Escher’s other “impossible” pictures (like “Ascending and Descending”) , there is actually no optical illusion involved here. Gravity seems to be working in three different directions simultaneously, but the picture shows a perfectly self-consistent physical scene. So modelling it should certainly be feasible. But while Escher’s picture has three different “up”s, LEGO isn’t quite so flexible…
There are also some construction pictures so you can see how it was done.