M.C. Escher Kaleidocycles

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Summary: Excellent Tessalated Kaleidocycles
Review: Now this book has intricated patterns and complicated designs. It took me a long time to develop one. Once I got the hang of it I thought students how to do them and they really enjoyed.If you are into art this is a great book for projects and designs

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Summary: Do the Aftermath
Review: The basic ideas in this book have been an inspiration to me for years. I had just enough background in engineering and drafting to realize that I could duplicate the basic patterns here to create my own little twisty things whenever I want to produce an amazing surprise. With color photocopying on cardstock, and by laminating photographic paper which was too flimsy to work with, it has been possible for me to create hundreds of these converging convolutions of my own design within the last six years.

In the edition I have, a design called "Heaven and Hell" is discussed on page 44. The basics are pretty obvious, like "wingtips of angels and devils are joined to form the outline of right triangles contained in a square." Overall, what is illustrated is that "Interlocking motifs depicting opposites" can be used to emphasize "the inability to recognize one without the other." This kind of playing with opposite valuations makes the most sense in a context like jokes,! where only people who dare to get in trouble would try anything which might be considered too personal. I was younger when I thought that these things might be a lot of fun, and I have given away most of the items that I was able to produce from the book, while I still have a vast quantity of the ones which I designed myself. The main reason I know better now (the ones in the book are not as intrusive) is because my own personal applications have often encountered morality on a level that is frightening to particular individuals. I should refrain from offering any samples of how a Pop Up Poem Book could make some aspect of a person (or worse, a line someone said which would be perfect in a poem) into poetry in motion, but such a person might become too self-conscious to continue to be subject to such scrutiny. It happens. As with my reviews, my own designs try to reflect some aspect of myself, as when they contain some kind of surprise, and I've started calling them nuker!plunkers instead of convolutions, so people have the opportunity to use their imaginations in considering what I might be giving them when I tell them, "Have a nukerplunker."

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Summary: Excellent for Artist and Mathematicians
Review: This book is great for teachers in art as well as math. The book comes with full detailed explanations as well as separate sheets to make copies. There are many different designs to choose from. Excellent source of reference.