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Circle Limit III
Circle Limit III is a woodcut made in 1959 by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, in which "strings of fish shoot up like rockets from infinitely far away" and then "fall back again whence they came".
It is one of a series of four woodcuts by Escher depicting ideas from hyperbolic geometry. Dutch physicist and mathematician Bruno Ernst called it "the best of the four".
Inspiration.
Escher became interested in tessellations of the plane after a 1936 visit to the Alhambra in
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Exhibits.
As well as being included in the collection of the Escher Museum in The Hague, there is a copy of "Circle Limit III" in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
External links.
- Douglas Dunham Department of Computer Science University of Minnesota, Duluth
- Examples Based on Circle Limits III and IV, 2006:More “Circle Limit III” Patterns, 2007:A “Circle Limit III” Calculation