This a listing of over 65 Escher web sites around the Internet.

Top Eight Escher Sites | Escher Biographies & Information | Images | Tessellations
Escher-like and Escher-inspired Artwork | Optical Illusions | Software | FTP Sites

Top Eight Escher sites

• Escher Centennial Celebration - Biography, exhibition schedule, books, teacher resources, Escher products for sale.
• World of Escher - Image gallery, Escher products for sale, reading room, Escher-like puzzles and a tessellation contest.
• Totally Tessellated - History, image gallery, mathematics of mosaics and tilings, tessellation lessons, Escher information, message board, glossary and links.
• National Gallery of Canada Escher Slide Kit for Teachers - On-line slide show, quotes, chronology, printmaking techniques, classroom activities and a bibliography.
• Investigating Patterns: Symmetry, and Tessellations - Education site with 30 activities on symmetry and tilings. Includes some Escher material and lots of related stuff.
• Escher: Artist or Mathematician? - Escher biography, images, tessellations and links.
• Escher Island - 22 images in a gallery with tour and wander options, biography and links.
• Neal Ziring's Escher Page - Biographies, images, books and links.

Escher Biographies & Information

• Matt Storer's Shrine of Escher - 14 images with commentary, 8 paragraph biography.
• Davo - 7 paragraph biography of Escher and his logo design for this company.
• The polyhedra of M.C. Escher - 5 paragraphs on polyhedra with 2 Escher images.
• Escher - 7 images with 4 pages of notes on and by Escher.
• Escher Centennial Congress 1998 - Announcement, program and other information about the Rome congress, coorganized by Professor Doris Schattschneider.
• Xander Burchartz - One paragraph Escher biography with one image.
• Math In Relation To Art - 10 small Escher images and some information on math and art.
• The M. C. Escher Pages - Biography, timeline and 3 images, including Escher's comments on "Encounter".
• Escher & Optical Illusions - 53 Escher images, books, tesselations, optical illusion gallery and illusion links.
• Burak Gencay Kucukler - 15 Escher images and a 1 paragraph biography.
• Escher - 31 Escher images with a paragraph of information in Spanish.
• Regelmatige Vlakverdeling(Regular division of the plane) - 3 paragraph Dutch essay.

Images

• Tony Munday - Well over 100 Escher images, rotated 6 per week.
• Escher at the National Gallery - Over 80 images, with information on 426 Escher works.
• David Mcallister Escher Picture Archive - 63 Escher images, 8 Escher-like images.
• Bill Church's Escher Gallery - 44 Escher images.
• Escher archief - 39 Escher images.
• M.C. Escher - 25 Escher images.
• Escher Art Collection - 20 Escher images with descriptions.
• Morgan, Jeff - 15 Escher images, 2 Escher-like images.
• Diablo's Corner - 12 Escher images and 2 from Giger.
• David Coen - 10 computer generated visualisations of Escher's drawings.
• Prints Plus - 6 Escher images.
• Rodrigo de Almeida Siqueira - 4 Escher images.

Tessellations

• Computer Art inspired by Escher and Victor Vasarely - Information and software on tessellations.
• Tessellations.com - Sells products that use tessellations. The site includes sections on learning, fun, art, ordering products, books & news.
• Tesselation Tutorials - A Math Forum Web Unit by Suzanne Alejandre.
• Logical Art and the Art of Logic - Pentominoes and Escher, Penrose, logic, impossible objects, mathematics and art.
• Introduction To Tessellations - References and software related to tessellations.
• Tesselations with Java - Tessellation tutorial with Java.
• The Geometry Junkyard: Tilings - 60 links to tiling topics.
• Download the TesselMania demo. This may take a few minutes.
• Wallpaper Groups - Discussion of the Plane Symmetry Groups.
• How to Make Tessellations - Directions on making tessellations with paper and scissors.
• Tessellating Patterns - Tessellations and quilting.
• An e-mail Discussions Thread on the Applications of Tessellations

Escher-like artwork and Escher-inspired artwork

• MPR Page - Four 3-D models of Escher's work and links.
• Yoshiaki Araki's Escher Patterns & Stuff Page - Escher-like artwork, software.
• Japanese Tessellation Design Association - Japanese text, good luck tracking down the original tessellation graphics!
• Hop's Escher 'Delta Blocks' site - Blocks inspired by Escher's "Flatworms", Escher-like art and many related links.
• Kelly Houle's Anamorphic Art - A photograph of Escher as well as his work "Hand With Reflecting Sphere" re-interpreted for viewing with a cylindrical mirror.
• Highland Tessellations - Student tessellations with links to other school tessellation sites.
• Andrew Crompton - Tessellation examples and links to other tessellators.
• J.-P. Luminet: Dessins et lithographies - 18 pieces of Escher-like art with text in French.

Other optical illusions

• Optical Illusions - 9 pages of optical illusions.
• The Eye - Eye exercises/training, vision therapy/training/perception, 3-D visual training.
• Illusion Works - Interactive demonstrations, scientific explanations, school projects, illusion artwork, interactive puzzles, 3D graphics, bibliographies, perception links and more.

Software

• Escher Interactive Demo - Tessellation software.
• A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry - 10 options to explore geometry and art.
• Yoshiaki Araki's Escher Patterns & Stuff Page - Escher-like artwork, software.
• Escher Paint Contest(Java) - Paint tessellations (if this works on your browser).
• Escher Web Sketch(Java) - Draw tessellations with any of the plane symmetry groups.

FTP sites

• M.C. Escher Art FTP Directory @ ftp.sunet.se
• Escher Art FTP Directory @ Yale