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Escher did many polyhedra studies. I was going to compile a list but George Hart has already done a good job: [link]

Hart's page displays Escher image "Stars".  "Stars" has two chameleon lizards crawling about in a compound of three octahedra as well as many other polyhedra floating in space, including all five Platonic solids.

Some of my personal favorites:

Gravity. The small stellated dodecahedron is a very handsome solid and I saw it for the first time in this print. I like the twelve monsters too.

Double Planetoid. The tetrahedron is self dual and Escher made a wonderful image of dual tetrahedra where one tetrahedron is a city planetoid and the other is a wilderness planetoid.

Flatworms. just as squares, triangles and other polygons can cover and divide a plane, cubes, octahedra/tetrahedra and other polyhedra can cover and divide space. Flatworms was the first time I've seen a structure built from something other than the conventional rectangular bricks. In some circles these space filling polyhedra are called honeycombs.

Now there is a Deviant Art group devoted to polyhedra. I invite everyone to take a look at the Polyhedronists [link] . As of this writing the group's about two weeks old but there is already a lot of good stuff on it.

Regards,

Hop David
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:iconsth22art:
thanx a lot for your request :)

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~006artyfan Apr 2, 2012  New member
[link] okay i saw this gut on da who's like really good at this sort of work you should check him out see if he wants to join

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:iconhop41:
When I followed the link, there was no art to look at.

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:icon4matc:
More fractals? Are you kidding?

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:iconhop41:
Escher liked to play with spirals and the Droste effect, so some of the recent submissions are Escher style. But some themes are being repeated until they're tiresome. Do you think we should be more hard-nosed on screening submissions?

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:icon4matc:
Just with fractals. I doubt Escher used soft to make some fractals, spirals and Droste effects. =)
Automatically generated, random formula and params (well, in the most cases)...
Quality should be first, quantity - second.
Though it's you to decide.

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:iconquartertime:
For your consideration, here's a Menger Hexahedron a la Escher: [link]
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:iconareolfos:
Thank you for putting my image in the group. :)

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:iconquartertime:
My fractal tribute to the Master: [link]
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*timemit Jan 21, 2012  Student General Artist
Many thanks for accepting me into the group .. :D

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