27th September 2008, 4:22 AM
You missed the point. The comic was intended to be about the game, how you could rotate a 3D level into different 3D shapes, and how childish that could potentially be.
Escher's paintings, even as inspiration, were static. He never rotated an image in real time, hence why you didn't get the joke without knowing about the game.
It was a reference to the game and that was the entirety of the joke.
Of course he knows about Escher.
Escher's paintings, even as inspiration, were static. He never rotated an image in real time, hence why you didn't get the joke without knowing about the game.
It was a reference to the game and that was the entirety of the joke.
Of course he knows about Escher.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)