Re:This picture broke my brain [3B1B video]
by rcxdude on Friday March 27, 2026 @10:33AM
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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.
Hm, since I can't edit my comment: link to paper [0]
[0] https://pub.math.leidenuniv.nl/~smitbde/papers/2003-de_smit-...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_Gallery_(M._C._Escher)