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February 03, 2010

M.C. Escher's Impossibilities in 3-D Lego

These are simply amazing. Here are a couple:

Escher-lego-relativity

Escher-lego-ascending-descending

For more, check out this site [h/t David Ricardo Palmer].

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Brent Buckner

Oooh. Thanks for the link!

Posted by: Brent Buckner | February 04, 2010 at 09:31 AM

Joshua

Here we have an abstract lego representation of one of ElectEcon's students after a rather trying lecture:

http://tinyurl.com/yfr4kw6

And one of EclectEcon giving his all during a lecture:

http://tinyurl.com/228byq

Posted by: Joshua | February 04, 2010 at 04:02 PM

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