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Escher Sketch
- smoyer 11y agoCool ... when I first started playing with it, I found I could make Spiro-Graph like art. Then I had to see how it worked and with just a few more circles of the mouse, I had a solid black pane. Some engineers will never be artists ;)
- jrometty 11y agodon't count yourself out yet! art is expression, and i'd bet you are good at some form of self-expression, even if you don't really think of it that way.
- philipov 11y agoEmphatically agree. Programmers are code artists practicing self-expression in the same vein as the architect of a building. And when they get too clever for their own good, it just as quickly devolves into creating a space that's hostile to its inhabitants.
- geyang 11y agoauthor is a synthetic biologist who had two first author Nature publications. Super awesome dude.
- lifthrasiir 11y agoI'm actually more impressed with polyHédronisme [1] linked from that page. Great. [1] http://levskaya.github.io/polyhedronisme/ http://levskaya.github.io/polyhedronisme/
- alevskaya 11y agoYeah, topological operators are just amazingly cool and are deeply related to subdivision surfaces and many other beautiful parts of geometry. I'd recommend checking out the mathematical sculptor George Hart (whose work introduced these operators to me) http://goo.gl/zrKAEK http://goo.gl/zrKAEK, as well as Wenzel Jamnitzer's beautiful "Perspectiva Corporum Regularium" http://goo.gl/2WKcyN http://goo.gl/2WKcyN
- tobr 11y agoHere are the links without going through Google's URL shortener: http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/sculpture.html http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/sculpture.html http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/08/jamnitzer-perspectiva.html http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/08/jamnitzer-perspecti...
- namuol 11y agoAwesome! I tried making something like this a few months ago[1] but never got around to finishing it (tiling is busted and performance is pretty terrible): http://lou.wtf/patturn/ http://lou.wtf/patturn/ Wallpaper groups are really neat. I especially love the p3 and p6 groups.
- Dangeranger 11y agoIt's incredible what beautiful designs can be created with such simple tessellations.
- widdma 11y agoInkscape's tile-clones allows you to do this. It's great fun and gives you the full power of vector graphics.
- jimbokun 11y agoCool but...what's it doing?
- FloydB 11y agoIts creating tessellations in the style of M.C. Escher. I was searching for something like this after seeing this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcc56fRtrKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcc56fRtrKU
- alevskaya 11y agoAuthor here - If I thought people were going to rediscover this old project I might have invested some time in redoing the UI, apologies for the crudeness. I was inspired to make a quick plane-symmetry sketching tool after being inspired for years by islamic pattern art, but much more could be done in this direction, especially with a proper vector tool. I highly recommend "The Symmetries of Things" http://goo.gl/1zzZjz http://goo.gl/1zzZjz for a mathematically deep, readable and well-illustrated coverage of symmetry. "Islamic Design" http://goo.gl/UCkRSa http://goo.gl/UCkRSa for a beautiful intro to the amazing designs one can achieve exploiting symmetries.
- yzh 11y agoThis is cool. Reminds me of this Islamic art game too: http://www.engare.design/ http://www.engare.design/
- looki 11y agoUnfortunately it doesn't seem to perform well in Firefox. Both on my Windows desktop and Linux laptop I get about 2 FPS, whereas it's perfectly smooth in Chrome on both. Really fun, though!
- mavci 11y agoThis is awesome! I can't stop drawing, please help!
- chtoric 11y agoReally cool. The source code from the creator, Anselm Levskaya, is on github: https://github.com/levskaya/eschersketch https://github.com/levskaya/eschersketch
- phantarch 11y agoI really want to draw in red and blue, then find some of those cheap 3D glasses and see what the result looks like. Very neat program.
- KuhlMensch 11y ago:+1: http://imgur.com/53VQUS0 http://imgur.com/53VQUS0