Dave Matthews <ns### [at] nospamedu> wrote:
> Alf Peake wrote:
>
> >
> > Looks like a version of MCEscher's Cubic Space Division after too much
> > happy juice ;) Others have done a POV-Ray copy and my latest version
> > is here <shameless plug>:
> > http://www.peake42.freeserve.co.uk/pix1/escher1.jpg
> >
>
> Alf, that's the best computer-generateed version of it I've seen.  You
> got the angle and the dimensions correct, reproducing what I consider
> the most important feature of Escher's work, the hexagon of empty space
> just above the center.  Too many others just seem to say, "well, I got
> the boxes and the rectangular tubes, just like Escher, see?"  Escher was
> clearly emphasizing, as usual, the duality of object/space, contrasting
> the hexagonal cross-sectional shape of the cubes with that of the empty
> space.  (Or so I've always thought.)
>
> Dave Matthews

That image is cool Alf - I wasn't aware of the Escher print then I made
mine, but I can see the similarity.

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