Watching this 1990 Sony high-definition video demonstration and wondering things

if you read my header image, i'm sorry
Watching this 1990 Sony high-definition video demonstration and wondering things
I'm not too familiar with escher's work outside of the obvious mainstream bits, but Sonic Team did specifically cite that Sonic 1's art direction was going for the look of late 80's/early 90's CG artwork. The time frame fits for these morphing patterns.
ya boi emcee escher loved tesselations https://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.pattern/lesson7art.html