Escher
The Dutch artist M. C. Escher was famous for drawings in which interlocking people and animals combined to tile the plane. A number of other artists have followed in his footsteps. Other pages here include work related to Escher's drawings of polyhedra and impossible figures.
Escher-inspired animorphic art by Kelly Houle, including "impossible figures" such as linked Penrose tribars.
David Bailey's world of tesselations. Primarily consists of Escher-like drawings but also includes an interesting section about Kepler's work on polyhedra.
Computer art inspired by M. C. Escher and V. Vasarely, H. Kuiper.
Contortion Engineering. Some Escher-like impossible figures from Offworld Press.
Andrew Crompton. Grotesque geometry, Tessellations, Lifelike Tilings, Escher style drawings, Dissection Puzzles, Geometrical Graphics, Mathematical Art. Anamorphic Mirrors, Aperiodic tilings, Optical Machines.
Delta Blocks. Hop David discusses ideas for manufacturing building blocks based on the tetrahedron-octahedron space tiling depicted in Escher's "Flatworms".
Sylvie Donmoyer geometry-inspired paintings including Menger sponges and a behind-the-scenes look at Escher's Stars.
Escher for real and beyond Escher for real. Gershon Elber uses layered manufacturing systems to build 3d models of Escher's illusions. The trick is to make some seemingly-flat surfaces curve towards and away from the viewplane.
Escher and the Droste effect. Mathematical analysis of Escher's "Print Gallery".
Escher in the classroom, Jill Britton.
Escher in the Palace. The official web site of the Escher museum in The Hague.
Escher Fish. Silvio Levy's tessellation of the Poincare model of the hyperbolic plane by fish in M.C. Escher's style. From the Geometry Center archives.
Escher patterns, Yoshiaki Araki.
Escher's combinatorial patterns, D. Schattschneider, Elect. J. Combinatorics.
Escherization. How to find a periodic tile as close as possible to a given shape? Craig S. Kaplan, U. Washington.
Frustro, a font made of Escherian impossible figures.
Gallery of interactive on-line geometry. The Geometry Center's collection includes programs for generating Penrose tilings, making periodic drawings a la Escher in the Euclidean and hyperbolic planes, playing pinball in negatively curved spaces, viewing 3d objects, exploring the space of angle geometries, and visualizing Riemann surfaces.
Gecko Stone interlocking concrete pavers in geometric and animal shapes, designed by John August.
Helical Gallery. Spirals in the work of M. C. Escher and in X-ray observations of the sun's corona.
Houtrust Relief. Nice photo of a 3d version of one of Escher's bird-fish textures, on the wall of a water purifying plant in The Netherlands. The same photographer has several other Escher photos including one of Metamorphoses in the Hague post office.
Intriguing tessellations. Marjorie Rice's Escher-like art.
Jim ex machina. Escher-like tessellations by Jim McNeill.
Robert F. Kauffman's fractal and Escherian art, with Escher-like animated animal-form tilings.
Landry Art, Escheresque tessellations, and balsa and paper polyhedra, including some prints, t-shirts, and models available for purchase.
Mathematical imagery by Jos Leys. Knots, Escher tilings, spirals, fractals, circle inversions, hyperbolic tilings, Penrose tilings, and more.
Mathematical lego sculptures and Escher Lego, Andrew Lipson.
More hyperbolic tilings and software for creating them, J. Mount.
Ozbird Escher-like tessellations by John Osborn, including several based on Penrose tilings.
Ozzigami tessellations, papercraft, unfolded peel-n-stick glitter Platonic solids, and more.
Penguins on the hyperbolic plane, Misha Kapovich. See also his Escher-like Crocodiles on the Euclidean plane.
Prints by Robert Fathauer. Escher-like interlocking animals form spiral tilings and fractals.
Solid object which generates an anomalous picture. Kokichi Sugihara makes models of Escher-like illusions from folded paper. He has plenty more where this one came from, but maybe the others aren't on the web.
Tesselation world of Makoto Nakamura.
Tessellations, a company which makes Puzzellations puzzles, posters, prints, and kaleidoscopes inspired in part by Escher, Penrose, and Mendelbrot.
Tessellations, Periodic Drawings, Computer Graphics, Latticework, ... William Chow likes Escher-like patterns of interlocking figure and really really long web page titles.
Three-dimensional models based on the works of M. C. Escher.
Tilable perspectives. Patrick Snels creates two-dimensional images which tile the plane to form 3d-looking views including some interesting Escher-like warped perspectives. See also his even more Escherian tesselations page.
On a tiling scheme by M. C. Escher, D. Davis, Elect. J. Combinatorics.
Totally Tessellated. Mosaics, tilings, Escher, and beyond.
Trefoil knot stairs. Java animation of an Escher-like infinite stair construction, intended as a Montreal metro station sculpture, by Guillaume LaBelle.
Triangles and squares. Slides from a talk I gave relating a simple 2d puzzle, Escher's drawings of 3d polyhedra, and the combinatorics of 4d polytopes, via angles in hyperbolic space. Warning: very large file (~8Mb). For more technical details see my paper with Kuperberg and Ziegler.
Visual math, the mathematical art of M. C. Escher.
Westside Impressions sells Escher T-shirts.