M. C. Escher Kaleidocycles - 17 models of Escher's graphics and the story of how they were devised - Softcover

Doris Schattschneider; Wallace Walker

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9780906212288: M. C. Escher Kaleidocycles - 17 models of Escher's graphics and the story of how they were devised

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ISBN 10: 0906212286 ISBN 13: 9780906212288

Publisher: Tarquin Publications, 1977

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Combining interesting explanations with 3-dimensional models to cut out and glue together, this book is an exploration of the symmetries of Escher's plane tilings. Some designs fold to make polyhedra and there is the delight in how the motifs fit together at the vertices and along the edges. Others make into kaleidocycles, models of linked tetrahedra which will turn thru their centers. As they are rotated Escher's interlocking patterns form and reform in endless procession. It is said that 'everyone loves surprizes' and this book is full of them

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