Brilliant Short Film Uses Mathematics As Inspriration

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Director Cristobal Vila of Etérea Studios has created Inspirations, a brilliant cinematic short film that offers a fictionalized interpretation of M.C. Escher's desk and the various objects that informed his mathematical art. Explains Vila of this piece:

I imagined that these things could be his travel souvenirs, gifts from friends, sources of inspiration… Some are tridimensional representations of works by Escher and others might be just his tools as artist and engraver. Here you will find some brief explanatory notes about those elements which have a highly mathematical nature, including the works of that great Dutch artist that appears along the film.

Some of the other references include:

• The five platonic solids
• Fermat's Last Theorem
• A Galton Box
• Newton's Cradle
• The Aerial screw by Leonardo
• and more 

For a full list of the inspirations, visit Eterea Studios Inspirations Math Index.

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We especially like the reference the grains of rice on the chessboard!