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I'm curious why you couldn't just surround yourself with the 16 objects. Perhaps they're meant to be much smaller than the person?
by tdeck 5y ago
I'm curious why you couldn't just surround yourself with the 16 objects. Perhaps they're meant to be much smaller than the person?
- ordu 5y agoThis way allow you to hide. A tight group of obstacles will give away your position and it will be demolished with a bazooka. Though an attacker might calculate the possible location of your body and use a grenade. But it might be unsafe for himself.
- neitherboosh 5y agoThe posted solution seems to work even when the objects have zero area, and are just points in space. If you just surrounded the target with 16 points, there would either be gaps or the points would be infinitesimally close to the target and would occupy the same space.
- ric2b 5y agoSo that means that any possible laser coming out of the shooter's position eventually passes through one of these 16 specific infinitesimally small points _before_ ever hitting the target? And that is always possible for any position of shooter and target? That's bonkers, wow.
- Pyramus 5y agoBoth person and obstacles are meant to be infinitesimally small, i.e. points with mass zero, which makes one really appreciate the beauty of the solution.