Discussion

boriskourt: This video is an absolute tour de force of communicating a complex concept.

coldpie: Clickbait title could use another pass. What is this about?

dmbche: All of 3Blue1Brown is - hoghly highly recommend

wodenokoto: It makes more sense when seen on YouTube where you get the thumbnail of one of M. C. Eschers famous drawings is shown.It’s a drawing of a guy looking at a picture of a town with himself standing in the town, but it’s all twirled and twisted so it’s self repetition isn’t obvious.

hnuser123456: It's about examining the mathematical methods MC Escher used in one of his recursive drawings.

Jeff_Brown: I love 3B1B but generally don't have time to watch long videos. Can anyone sum up the punchline?

m-hodges: The title I get when I click on this is, "How (and why) to take a logarithm of an image"

nticompass: I clicked on the link and the video title is "Decoding Escher's most mind-bending piece", which is a lot better. I also had no idea what "3B1B video" meant, apparently it's a channel called "3Blue1Brown".

coldpie: > Examining the mathematical methods MC Escher used in one of his recursive drawingsThis would be an excellent title :)

SirMaster: Depends how you define excellent. If the goal is to get more views then it's not all that great, and views are kind of the point of YouTube for many, especially if they are trying to make a living from it.

c-hendricks: That's great for YouTube, but HN has some guidelines:> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait

ahns: One of Dutch artist M.C. Escher's works is a man is admiring a piece of art that itself depicts the building the (very same) man is in [0]. Escher left out the middle bit of the painting, probably since it's fairly complicated, putting his signature there instead. The video itself is about the complex analysis used to fill in that missing middle, based on a paper ~20 years ago.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_Gallery_(M._C._Escher)

rcxdude: I think the gap also has a compositional purpose: the viewer's eye is meant to travel around the image in a circle, and the gap helps anchor that in a way that the filled-in version might not.

OscarCunningham: I've been wondering if you could do a similar thing for a Droste effect image containing two copies of itself. Packs of Laughing Cow cheese show a cow with two earrings, each of which is a pack of the cheese.