Greg Egan on Nostr: Escher learned about hyperbolic geometry from Coxeter, and Coxeter in turn wrote ...
Escher learned about hyperbolic geometry from Coxeter, and Coxeter in turn wrote about “Circle Limit III”:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1574078That article made it much easier to repeat Escher’s construction, which I’ve done below.
At first glance, this image is very confusing, because …
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