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[A Black Falcon]

I love how ABF always hates on Penny Arcade not being funny when he doesn't even get what's being referenced about 50% of the time. :FuckYou:



No, because it's a reference to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfICeBtVv8U

Woah... now THAT's a blatant Escher reference! I'd heard the word "EchoChrome" before (that is, I knew it was some kind of downloadable game for some platform I didn't have), but didn't know anything about what it was, no.

So it was a reference to a game based on Escher-style geometry? How is this not an Escher reference, then, again? It is, obviously.

... Or did you really not know about M.C. Escher?

I know Escher styles -- that is, 'impossible designs'. They're very cool designs and concepts. That 'Waterfall' picture is so awesome... as are most of them. :) There's a 'Metamorphosis' poster up in our house, I have an old 'Escher Interactive' program (which I got because the stuff is cool), my dad (a mathematician) thinks it's interesting stuff (has a t-shirt with Escher-like 'odd shapes' stuff on it, I believe)... that's Escher. No question about it, none at all.

And indeed, the game's Wikipedia page confirms that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echochrome

This concept is inspired by M. C. Escher's artwork.

Actually, looking at that article, I got one thing wrong...

This Escher-inspired artist (also linked by the EchoChrome article) is the most direct reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Reutersv%C3%A4rd

His most famous work is displayed on the page, and I've seen it before too. That triangle design might, in fact. be the design on that shirt my dad has... Makes sense that Escher inspired people... impossible shapes are fun. :)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...iangle.svg

It looks like a triangle at first, but then you look at the colors and realize how impossible a design it is... amazing work.



Oh, if you're wondering what "Metamorphosis" is, if you don't know (the one we have is one of these from Metamorphosis II, but there are some others):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...sis_II.jpg