Thursday, December 31, 2015

Escher's "Square Limit" as a circle


M.C. Escher created the square limit woodcut in 1964.

input: Escher's "Square Limit" woodcut


Schwarz-Christoffel mapping

elliptical grid mapping

FG-squircular mapping

Shirley-Chiu concentric map






Coxeter {6,4} tiling of the Poincare disk

H.S.M. Coxeter published a checkered {6,4} hyperbolic tiling of the Poincare disk in his 1957 paper: "Crystal Symmetry and Its Generalizations".

Here, we convert the conformal hyperbolic disk to hyperbolic squares.

input: Coxeter {6,4} tiling of Poincare disk


Schwarz-Christoffel mapping

elliptical grid mapping


FG-squircular mapping

Shirley-Chiu concentric map