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How (and why) to take a logarithm of an image

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Original paper by de Smit and Lenstra:
https://pub.math.leidenuniv.nl/~smitbde/papers/2003-de_smit-lenstra…

Escher's Print Gallery, and the tour of complex analysis it invites.
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Original paper by de Smit and Lenstra:
https://pub.math.leidenuniv.nl/~smitbde/papers/2003-de_smit-lenstra…

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