…I used to respond to some of these forum things by saying okay, let’s start off in #Flatland and see how much physics we can do there. Now even for classical dynamics in three dimensions we were ‘compactifying’ extra dimensions and hiding them in imaginary numbers and phase space long before now so if extra dimensions are just ‘getting lost in math’ then clearly your probably getting lost in your own driveway
#Flatland
Computers are their own sort of flatland of logic, code, and data. The user is the sphere.
You know what's weird? The 4th wall. In stage and film productions it makes sense, there's a stage floor, ceiling you can't usually see, 3 walls to sides & behind. So the 4th wall is to the audience and that's fine.
But in comics it makes no fucking sense. There's no walls. There might be 4 panel sides, or drawn full page, but the "3rd dimension" is where we look in.
Therefore, Deadpool, the hippest superhero, is A. Square.
@dgar see also Flatland: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edwin-a-abbott/flatland #Flatland
As far as the eye can see.
Book review: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott
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Episode seventy is up now! Today's song is Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) by Arcade Fire.
I discuss the dancey synth pop instrumental that is impossible not to dance to, and the way it contrasts with the low and slow Sprawl I.
https://youtu.be/pGIbTlkm_xo?si=QtzjJd5B1IxXDWgt
#podcast #dailypodcast #pigeon #pigeonsongspod #music #songs #arcadefire #thesuburbs #suburbs #winbutler #willbutler #sprawl #flatland #sprawliimountainsbeyondmountains #réginechassagne
Episode sixty-nine is up now! Today's song is Sprawl I (Flatland) by Arcade Fire.
I discuss the painful and nostalgic lyrics, and the way it contrasts with Sprawl II (tune in tomorrow!).
https://youtu.be/UHA44VZbkPM?si=AYbcWUu5vBMW9Qr-
#podcast #dailypodcast #pigeon #pigeonsongspod #music #songs #arcadefire #thesuburbs #suburbs #winbutler #willbutler #sprawl #flatland #sprawliflatland
The book #Flatland is all about the question "What would it be like to be a completely two-dimensional being? What would a three-dimensional being look like to a two-dimensional being? What would a four-dimensional being look like to us?" The questions were formative to me as a child. I found a feature length adaptation from 2007 to show to my kid, and WOW they made some... bold choices.
Guckt mal, welches Buch ich gefunden habe! #Flächenland #Flatland https://www.nerdlicht.net/2024/04/buchfundstueck-flaechenland.html
Along the way, I had an idea for the #Flatland sim. I'm trying to match real #physics as accurately as possible, that way fun can be had by tweaking things we take for granted. This means I sometimes need to get creative to explain how Flatlanders actually experience and interact with things (hand-waving is put off as long as possible). Most recently, I became troubled by color.
The 1D perspectives are constructed via basic raycasting. This is fine for ray optics. I added colors and mirrors about a month back. Raycasting is still fine. Then this last week, while waiting for my brain to construct a better schema for electric fields, I decided to add in refraction. Raycasting is potentially not fine with this.
Refraction brings with it the concept of diffusion, which means that at the time of beginning to cast a ray, I would need to know the color of the object it will eventually hit, in order to refract it properly. But I can't know what object a ray will hit until it's already been refracted.
So… I'm thinking the Flatlanders in this simulation don't perceive the wavelength of a photon as color. Instead, they perceive color from the polarization of a photon. As far as I know (and I do need to double-check), polarization has no effect on refraction, so Flatlanders wouldn't perceive colors diffusing through a prism (provided the light was all a single wavelength).
Hello Fediverse!
I'm your classic cat loving, #Linux using, 20-something-year-old student who grew up with effectively unsupervised internet access. After far too much overthinking and lurking, I've decided to finally make an account and say "hi" (hi :ablobcatattention:).
Not entirely sure what I'll post, but hopefully some before/after posts on basic tasks for my own accountability ( #accountabilibuddies ?). There's also a pretty good chance I'll post some pictures/updates for a #Flatland simulator I'm building with Matter.js. It can import very basic constructions from #Geogebra, displays 1D and 2D perspectives, handles reflection and refraction, has a basic #Lua API, and a very incomplete model of electromagnetism that is constantly challenging me (it's getting there, but right now the #physics of conductors are giving me headaches. My understanding is that the entire surface of an ideal conductor is an equipotential, but I don't understand what the potential value should actually be when there's multiple nearby charges. I get the feeling I'll need to completely change what I'm doing to handle anything with a permittivity other than 1).
Well… That got longer than intended. I'm off to go handle some laundry now.
Can you do #BMX #flatland tricks on a slopestyle MTB? Turns out you can - provided your name is #MatthiasDandois. Quite an impressive #freestyle cycling park in France as well. https://youtu.be/6eSj52jeT_A?si=4t2hynBRyIn9q3XJ
Two half-ideas I had while reviewing my own thread:
Maybe the interaction between #TTRPG and #boardgame universes is like Edwin Abbott's #Flatland -- aren't most gameboards basically two-dimensional universes viewed by three-dimensional entities?
Maybe pair the "real world" revelation with the idea the PCs' universe is evolving from essentialist to existentialist? End on the warm-and-fuzzy thought that "maybe all stories eventually become real."
Unfinished ideas are the worse, aren't they?
Our interdimensional #TTRPG explorers are confused by this. They've never seen an dimension that mixes essentialist and existential entities like that. Maybe they "alien abduct" the PCs. Maybe they experiment on them or test them somehow. I don't know, because I never figured out where to go with that idea, which is why I never used it. Maybe you can figure out the part that I couldn't.
(And make the aliens four-dimensional because going full #Flatland makes it more surreal.)
The flat earthers, do they at least concede that earth is 3D (like a cuboid) or do they think it is 2D like in Abbott's Flatland? 🤔
If the former, there might still be some hope. 🤞
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