Such relative brief commentary was not an outlier it was typical throughout the book. However, the latter was somewhat brief, both of just five lines, of which I transcribe below. In The Graphic Work, these are shown as Plates 34-35 with commentary on p. Nonetheless, although Escher’s terminology is more exact than Palmer’s, I have decided to retain his terminology for the genre. Of course, my favoured description, ‘cluster puzzles’, is derived from Alex Palmer’s usage, of which I have chosen as the preferred term, for reasons as I give in the main page, despite the term not being particularly descriptive! Indeed, quite how ‘best’ to define the genre is unclear. Of Escher's terminology, I prefer ‘free plane filling’ and ‘irregular plane filling’, in no particular order. Escher: Art and Science ) ‘ irregular space-filling patterns’. By others, Bruno Ernst ( Magic Mirror ) called these ‘free surface-fillings’ and Marianne Teuber ( M.C. Escher described the cluster puzzle nature in four different ways: ‘Free plane-filling’ (Periodic Drawing 83), ‘irregular plane filling’ (letter to George Paulus, 1964), ‘ unequal figures’ ( Grafiek en Tekeningen), and ‘no repeating figures’ (Lecture notes, 1964). Of interest is to how the genre was described by Escher, and by extension, others. Given that both works appear only in the English edition, I will defer to this edition below, save for specific instances of the Dutch edition. Further, the commentary appears to be notably different. For instance, in the original Dutch 1960 edition only Plane Filling II appears, whilst in an English 1970 edition both appear. It has been through many editions, expanded revisions and languages. However, there are various difficulties in quoting the passages in this book. Escher (all three), but not particularly in-depth, and in lecture notes (excluding Sun and Moon ) for a proposed lecture tour of the USA in 1964, unrealised due to ill-health. Unlike other cluster puzzle artists who refrained from comment on their works, Escher at least discussed all these (among some of his other works), in The Graphic Work of M. Although not ideal, it still more than admirably serves to illustrate the works. All three images have been licensed for use as actual jigsaw puzzles, and so instead I show these. However, there is a workaround to showing these. Despite two previous requests to use, they did not respond, and so this time I did not pursue them again. Regarding the images below, all Escher's works are copyright of the Escher Foundation. Given that ‘Plane Filling’ is generally preferred, I thus use this title below. The Plane Filling works are also synonymously titled Mosaic I and Mosaic II. Plane Filling I is also shown as a periodic drawing, No. As suggested by the different names, these differ in style, and from two broad subgroups. Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898–27 June 1972), the life-life tessellation pioneer who scarcely needs a further introduction, shows three cluster puzzle instances (although of course not known by the title of the day), with Sun and Moon, with 28 (bird) motifs, of 1948, Plane Filling I, with 36 animal motifs, of 1951 and Plane Filling II, with 40 animal motifs, with one exception, of 1957.
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