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Some Escher's tessellated images can be adopted to spherical surface. First of all it is concerned to his lithographs which show hyperbolic space such as "Angels and Devils", "Circle limit IV" etc. Above left is the original lithograph "Angels and Devils" and above right is the wooden spherical interpretation of it.
There's regular way to transformation hyperbolic geometry to spherical geometry. You can read it here http://plus.maths.org/issue18/xfile/.
Other Escher's tessellations also can be applied to sphere. You can see some examples below.
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3 comments:
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Vlad,
I thought you might want to know: there is this old journal called Structural Topology which has a number of interesting articles on Escher and mathematical features in sculpture and architecture. The journal has been defunct for 10 years, but recently they scanned all issues and posted them here:
http://haydn.upc.es/people/ros/StructuralTopology/
Take a look! The very last issue is fully on art.
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