Des Mondes Impossibles {ReadingNotes}

Des mondes impossibles : 2 en 1: l'aventure des figures impossibles - le monde des illusions de Bruno Ernst - ISBN 3822854093 - Taschen 2006

Motivation

Appreciate Escher since very young, probably before being 10, remembering the tiled fishes or the water reflections but overall interested in paradoxes as mind games and potential ways to discover new models.

Pre-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

• Penrose and his tiling linked to mathematics in general thus PCM
• Carceri d'invenzione by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

See also

• Godel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey OpenCourseWare 2007 as seen earlier
• Escher for Real Gershon Elber
  • Beyond Escher for Real
• Official M.C. Website by The M.C. Escher Company B.V
• Impossible world by Vlad Alexeev, started in 2001
• Impossible Motions 2 by Kokichi Sugihara
  • Une illusion d'optique qui défie la gravité, Sciences et Avenir April 2010

Overall remarks and questions

• this? that?

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

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Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

Categories

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