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Chocolat 65
19 April 2009, 04:23 PM
Did you ever notice this?
The box dimension is based on one of Escher's most famous lithograph prints called Ascending and Descending. In it is an impossible construction called Penrose stairs.

Compare:
http://cpcheatshome.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/box-dimension2.png
Box dimension
http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/escher_stairs_monks_small.jpg
Ascending and Descending (detail)
http://www.algana.co.uk/Brainteasers/stairs.jpg
Penrose stairs

It's quite interesting to see where Club Penguin gets their ideas from.
Did you notice?
SaFiEtCP
19 April 2009, 05:03 PM
No, I didnt notice, did you find this out your self? Nice find!
phenom21
19 April 2009, 05:06 PM
I never noticed that. I saw that stairs thing before. There's no end to it. Club Penguin is creative like that.
Mook
19 April 2009, 05:51 PM
I never noticed this, either. Nice find. I think Club Penguin is creative, and maybe just based their idea off that.
cakewithicecream
19 April 2009, 06:31 PM
yeah they look very alike:D
Jay Bird
19 April 2009, 07:20 PM
I could have sworn that someone told me that eariler. Oh well, I noticed. I like MC Esher, he's confusingly awesome. :3 The boxes defy the laws of EVERYTHING.
Chocolat 65
20 April 2009, 05:35 PM
No, I didnt notice, did you find this out your self? Nice find!

Yeah, I found it myself. I just looked at the boxes, and then I was like: Hey! that's not possible! :)

I could have sworn that someone told me that eariler. Oh well, I noticed. I like MC Esher, he's confusingly awesome. :3 The boxes defy the laws of EVERYTHING.

Yeah, I find his art awesome too!
More of Escher's art:
http://nsa02.casimages.com/img/2008/06/17/0806170852203703119.jpg
Sky and Water I
http://www.poster.net/escher-mc/escher-mc-drawing-hands-7400022.jpg
Drawing hands