Re:Escher's "Balcony" in Lego
by thebruce87m on Friday May 17, 2024 @01:46PM
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Wasn’t there a windows 98 (?) screensaver that did the magnifying effect like that?
Re:Escher's "Balcony" in Lego
by quectophoton on Saturday May 18, 2024 @07:48AM
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You're probably thinking of this:
https://youtu.be/Vzq744X4dpw?t=560
TL;DW: It's a video showing the different Windows ME screensavers. The screensaver with magnifying effect seems to be called "Science", and starts at 9:20 (timestamp in the link).
I don't know if it also existed in Windows 98, I didn't search that much after finding that video.
Re:Escher's "Balcony" in Lego
by thebruce87m on Saturday May 18, 2024 @08:33AM
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Yes, that was it!
"A significant part of the problem was figuring out exactly what distortion Escher had used to blow up the centre of the picture; firstly because we wanted to "undistort" the picture in order to be able to copy the townscape, and secondly so that we could transform our final photograph into something that looked like Escher's print."
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"Our eventual solution was to take a number of separate shots, zooming in on distinct parts of the model, and glue them together as a mosaic panorama. The image above was constructed in this way from 16 images. The final Escher transformation was implemented in a custom C program that I hacked together."