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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: toccata te! #90860 01/05/03 09:46 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 the one beneath it has all sorts of internal twists I guess it depends where you draw the line between the top story and the one beneath it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: toccata te! #90861 01/05/03 10:09 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont aauughh.... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: #90862 01/06/03 06:34 AM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 122 Poland, Cracow R rav member rav member R Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 122 Poland, Cracow i'm afraid bel in belweder is still just bel Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Pretty white ding-dong war #90863 01/06/03 10:57 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 just bel Just bel? Ain' no sech a thang as just bel! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter story #90864 01/07/03 06:15 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 315 Italy - Perugia is a town with... E emanuela enthusiast emanuela enthusiast E Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 315 Italy - Perugia is a town with... Even the lower one is normal, try to cover the top part with a sheet. The trick is shown from the small guy sitting in the lower left corner, he is holding a paper with "the key" of the question, the so called impossible cube. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: toccata te! #90865 01/08/03 05:05 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta You do realise that because of the words story and crossed posts, I was wandering about for 10 minutes clicking on links and re-reading posts trying to find some sort of story somewhere before it dawned on me that you were talking about the top storey. Bloody USns, learn to spell properly, $#@& @%$* etc. etc. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: toccata te! #90866 01/08/03 10:41 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont haha! sorry, Bingley. I wish I could say I did it on purpose, not confuse you, but to be so clever with words... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: toccata te! #90867 01/08/03 11:30 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Bloody USns, learn to spell properly I suppose it *is too much to expect y'all to look at the context of the words and decide what they mean on that basis. Storie. There is that better? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: belvedere #90868 01/09/03 01:46 AM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 M maahey addict maahey addict M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 I finally found the time to dig up my Escher book and read again about 'Belvedere'. It threw up another couple of interesting observations that I had completely skipped when I accessed the link; thought I'd share them in a post. - Was entitled "The Phantom House" in trial studies. - The preparatory sketches included a spiral staircase around a pillar; the definitive version has a ladder - The top storey and the one immediately beneath, appear at right angles to each other - Of the eight pillars that join the two storeys together, only the extreme right and the extreme left behave normally - The other six connect the front side to the rear side somehow passing through the space in the middle - The ladder is ramrod straight, and yet, its bottom end is clearly inside the building whilst the top end is propped against the outer edge. So is the man in the middle, inside the building or outside? aaarrrrghhhh.. - The boy at bottom left is holding a model of the framework of the cube, when actually such a model cannot be built. Belvedere spawned multiple efforts to create just such a model, but despite several attempts to do so, the closest one has come to it, is a photograph by Dr.Cochran who entitled it "Crazy Crate". His photograph was only a simulation however. http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Canal/8167/escher.html The link above, states that the Cube was used as a detail in Belvedere; my book says the opposite. Anyone? Thank you to both AnnaS and Rubrick for 'belvedere'. It's a most beautiful word. Edit: The link above, states that the Cube was used as a detail in Belvedere; my book says the opposite. No conflict here, the cube is a detail in the Lithograph. Dr. Cochran's pictorial effort came later. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: belvedere #90869 01/09/03 10:56 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 - Of the eight pillars that join the two storeys together, only the extreme right and the extreme left behave normally One minor quibble here. These two pillars cannot both be behaving normally. The respective corners of the two stories that they connect cannot both be directly in line with each other. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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