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M.C. Escher kaleidocycles / [electronic resource] Doris Schattschneider, Wallace Walker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Corte Madera, Calif. : Pomegranate Artbooks, 1987.Edition: Rev. edDescription: 1 portfolio (57 p., 17 folded leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 0876542089
  • 9780876542088
  • 0764931105
  • 9780764931109
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 769.92/4 20
LOC classification:
  • QA447 .S3 1987
Online resources: Summary: This one-of-a-kind publication explores M.C. Escher's periodic drawings and their suitability as surface designs for Kaleidocycles--three-dimensional rings formed from chains of tetrahedra (four-sided geometric forms). Includes seventeen Kaleidocycle models, all printed with repeating patterns from Escher's drawings, and a lavishly illustrated (over eighty illustrations and diagrams) book giving assembly instructions.
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Includes 17 folded sheets of two-dimensional drawings which can be separated from their surrounding extra paper to form polyhedral forms.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 56).

This one-of-a-kind publication explores M.C. Escher's periodic drawings and their suitability as surface designs for Kaleidocycles--three-dimensional rings formed from chains of tetrahedra (four-sided geometric forms). Includes seventeen Kaleidocycle models, all printed with repeating patterns from Escher's drawings, and a lavishly illustrated (over eighty illustrations and diagrams) book giving assembly instructions.

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