"The feeling is one of loss of the world. As if the world were fading, as if there were less of it. This can seem paradoxical, especially considering the brutal, horrifying wars taking place right now, which, with all their death and suffering, seem like an #overload of reality, but they come here as images; they are #twodimensional and #manipulable, and they arrive in the midst of a flood of other images. Within me, there exists a feeling that what I see, I control, and that I in a way have an overarching perspective on it. All the images I’ve seen of places I’ve never been, people I’ve never met create a kind of #pseudomemory from a #pseudoworld that I don’t participate in. The images arrive already complete; there is no communication between them and myself, no reciprocal exchange. So as much as we like to say that the world is opening up to us, since we can see every part of it, we can also say that the world is #closing itself off—in all its #openness."

Idea for fediverse feature:

You know how polls work, you can ask a question, then annotate a bunch of choices relating to it and people click the choice if they want to participate and then you get a quantification of which choice ‘won’ at the end

Here’s a different idea: two dimensional polls

You basically ask a question and then annotate an X axis label and a Y axis label, the poll is presented as a sort of four-quadrant grid with a simple fine grid line delineating those quadrants, and the user just taps their finger where they think their response is supposed to sit according to the X and Y labels

(Option for bisexual axes on the X and Y which swing around a central zero, or otherwise, a unipolar label which just has zero to max) #Fediverse #poll #twoDimensional #quadrant

JUNGLE | Tomb Raider 3 - Side-Scroller Edition

https://peertube.su/videos/watch/d1638852-20ef-42db-94e1-91c1cbd4ef40

Two-dimensional summer chive

#photography #home #rural #sweden #summer #jämtland #northernsweden #mountains #flower #flora #chives #vase #cloth #screen #shadow #twodimensional #2D #purple #chive #sunlight #workplace #July #cables #computer #openwindow #cottage #desktop #table #nature #plant

My wife was looking at the properties of #ellipses such as the one where the sum of the distance of all points on the #ellipse from the two foci are the same and how that relates to the standard equation of an ellipse. I wrote these notes up neatly using #LaTeX to explain the relationship.

To put it up here, I converted the #PostScript pages to #PNG format using #GNU #Gimp and the figure was produced using #Tgif.

#Mathematics #Geometry #TwoDimensional #PlaneCurve #CartesianCoordinates #CCBYSA