Conversation Between Turtle and pamela

ahhh...the number theory has finally paid off-you went from 102 to 75 to 64, decreasing in age at a rapid rate-totally trashed the fourth dimension-my hero!

can't touch this.

PS Thanks for the birthday wishes! Your encouragement has prompted me to have another one tomorrow.

happy Birthday Turtlemeister!!!!!!

I am still laughing...your talent abounds!

it took me a minute to get the reference, but yeah, it's me. so i'm not just in the fifth plane there, i am generating it. here's me making a 4.2th plane to accompany some blues. >>

TURTLE!!! is that you in the fifth plane?!!! totally grooving on your 80's hammer pants!

Before I dematerialized (code for get rid off stuff), I had a full-size print of Relativity which for many years I kept framed & hanging on the wall opposite the toilet. This in deference to the Ladies and allowing them twice the opportunities to view it as the Men and by not hanging it behind the stool so as to distract Men from focussing on what must needs be focussed on by Men in such circumstance.

Now in thinking of so many of Escher's works, I am hard pressed to name any as favorite. Two excellent books I've owned that I recommend:

M.C. Escher - Visions of Symmetry by Doris Schattschneider
World of Escher Books

and

(I think this was it?) Escher: The Complete Graphic Work by J. L. Locher, M. C. Escher
050027696X: "Escher : The Complete Graphic Work" by J. L. Locher, M. C. Escher @ BookFinder.com

Alas I dematerialized them so no going to check for a favorite.

yeah, Escher uses both parts of his brain like you Turtle! my favorite pics are "self portrait" and "relativity"

He is a fascinating character in so many regards. He invented his own descriptions and terms for all the possible symmetry(s) before anyone in mainstream mathematics rigorously did so, and yet he did it in order to further his art. i don't recall the source, but i once heard the image held by the man in Belvedere described as a 'box for holding optical illusions.' so it is.