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Recursive Exercises XI: Homage to Escher

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This Demonstration shows two examples inspired by Escher's Square Limit print. Both rotate the main motif to extend it to fill a square. The first example converges to a square of a size defined at level 0, whereas the second progressively grows toward it.

Contributed by: Jaime Rangel-Mondragon (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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D. Schattschneider, "The Mathematical Side of M. C. Escher," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 57(6), 2010 pp. 706–718.

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