The Beauty of Mathematics (1 1)—— From Tianshui Starry Sky to the Lost Famous Paintings

The basic graphics of different forms, such as points, lines and surfaces, are combined into a new graphic, which evolves gradually and regularly to form a new graphic. Escher's "Heaven and Water" uses the gradual composition method to organically combine the birds in the sky with the fish in the water. Escher is a Dutch printmaker. He calls himself a "graphic artist".

The bright starry sky is infinitely charming. Copernicus once said, "What can be better than the sky? You know, the sky contains all the beautiful things. " Escher also wrote Starry Sky. He has a special liking for polyhedrons and frames, and he also has unique opinions. His paintings add life to the stars in the universe.

In addition to graphic transformation, artistic masterpieces also appear according to the law of several nautical miles.

15 14 years, the German painter Diu Lei created a copperplate "Sorrow", with a fourth-order Rubik's Cube hanging on the upper right of the painting, and the two numbers in the middle of the fourth row constitute "15 14", which just corresponds to the creation year15/kloc-. This painting expresses people's deep "sadness" about not having enough knowledge and wisdom to explore the mysteries of nature.

Rubik's cube was mysterious in ancient times, and sometimes it was only used for divination. Of course, people now have long understood the hidden regularity behind it. We will introduce the development of Rubik's Cube next time, so stay tuned ~ ~