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Couldn't help but think of the book Flatland and the parts about two-dimensions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
by mytec 7y ago
Couldn't help but think of the book Flatland and the parts about two-dimensions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
- will_brown 7y agoAnd of course Schlegel diagrams which are commonly used for visualizing four-dimensional polytopes. It’s been over 100 years (very close in time to the publication of flatland) and I don’t think anyone has proposed an alternative diagram of a 4 cube/hypercube/Tesseract.
- chazu 7y agoThe Planiverse by A. K. Dewdney is also a great read on this subject - its less of an allegory than Flatland and focuses more on what the physiology and society of 2D life might look like. Worth a look.
- Isamu 7y agoI had this book, it had fun illustrations and thoughts about a hypothetical world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planiverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planiverse
- Upvoter33 7y agoSame here - especially the part about how a 2d creature poops...