M. C. Escher
Hyperbolic Dreams

Escher reveals a world far away from our general perception of reality, a world of mathematics, a world of abstractions, anticipating deep features of modern day cosmology.

Armin Copp
Broken worlds without end

Fractals are a wonderful way of seeing infinity. Their beauty is only secondary after that lesson in perception.

Augustin Lesage
The voices you heard were real

In 1912, the pitface miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice telling him that he was going to become a painter…

Oscar Reutersvard
The Impossible Figure

Oscar Reutersvärd is widely acknowledged as the father of the impossible figure.

Illustrating
Infinity

In my point of view these 3D animations of mandelbrot sets are a very effective way of getting a glimpse of infinity