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Re:This picture broke my brain [3B1B video] by ahns on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:47AM (#47542601)
One of Dutch artist M.C. Escher's works is a man is admiring a piece of art that itself depicts the building the (very same) man is in [0]. Escher left out the middle bit of the painting, probably since it's fairly complicated, putting his signature there instead. The video itself is about the complex analysis used to fill in that missing middle, based on a paper ~20 years ago.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_Gallery_(M._C._Escher)

Re:This picture broke my brain [3B1B video] by rcxdude on Friday March 27, 2026 @10:33AM (#47543112)
I think the gap also has a compositional purpose: the viewer's eye is meant to travel around the image in a circle, and the gap helps anchor that in a way that the filled-in version might not.
Re:This picture broke my brain [3B1B video] by ahns on Friday March 27, 2026 @01:21PM (#47545598)
Hm, since I can't edit my comment: link to paper [0]

[0] https://pub.math.leidenuniv.nl/~smitbde/papers/2003-de_smit-...

Re:This picture broke my brain [3B1B video] by daedrdev on Friday March 27, 2026 @01:39PM (#47545826)
HN only allows editing comments for a short time