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Flatland a romance of many dimensions... - ntype - 04-20-2008

We live in a world of many dimension (3 physical one the time) what if we were in two only ?
Flatland is for sure some kind of interesting reading out there. Maybe a little bit difficult on Sunday mornings.
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I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my universe": but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things.




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http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/

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Flatland a romance of many dimensions... - Sparks - 04-20-2008

Yeah, its all fun and games until someone gets a polygon stuck up thier ass ...

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Flatland a romance of many dimensions... - leeman - 04-21-2008

Sparks Wrote:Yeah, its all fun and games until someone gets a polygon stuck up thier ass ...

Sounds like you speak from exprience.....

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Flatland a romance of many dimensions... - Anhil8tor - 04-21-2008

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Thanks ntype!

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Flatland a romance of many dimensions... - BIRD33 - 04-21-2008

this article is a good time killer.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_alexander?currentPage=1

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Flatland a romance of many dimensions... - Sparks - 04-22-2008

leeman Wrote:Sounds like you speak from exprience.....

We don't mention "The Incident" around here ... I do freak out around Stop Signs though.

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Flatland a romance of many dimensions... - ntype - 04-22-2008

Anhil8tor Wrote:Not Found

The requested URL /~banchoff/Flatland/f was not found on this server.



Thanks ntype!

fixed some alien char went in the path :d

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