Martijn Cohen: links

Art Blocks explains its platform model of artist-authored algorithms, seeded variation, minting, and on-chain preservation.

Art Blocks specifies browser, JavaScript, dependency, testing, and deterministic-randomness requirements for artists.

OpenSea’s Art Blocks primer explains the relationship among an artist’s algorithm, a token hash, deterministic rendering, and minting.

Escher in The Palace examines how Escher combined multiple perspectives to produce an apparently logical but impossible image.

Escher in The Palace analyzes Belvedere as a combination of individually convincing perspectives that cannot coexist spatially.

Escher in The Palace discusses the relationship between Roger Penrose, geometric puzzles, and Escher’s final tessellation.

Somerset House presents a retrospective organized around landscapes, tessellations, metamorphoses, impossible constructions, and visual paradoxes.

Filmmakers Robin Lutz and Marijnke de Jong discuss Escher’s archives, intuition, mathematical reputation, transformation, and infinity.

The Generative Escher Meshes project page describes a text-guided system that optimizes mesh geometry and color to create repeating non-square tiles.

The Journey to Infinity press kit assembles production information and historical context for Robin Lutz’s documentary about Escher.

Raster aggregates Martijn Cohen's tokenized works across platforms.

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