5 ms·
That's one of the best math articles I've ever read frankly. I was just wondering the other day how to visualize a square flat torus, and I didn't realize that
by bglazer 12y ago
That's one of the best math articles I've ever read frankly.
I was just wondering the other day how to visualize a square flat torus, and I didn't realize that this was such a compelling mathematical question.
- TTPrograms 12y agoOne of the funny implications is that many 2D video games implicitly have toroidal worlds. This is reasonable for something like Pacman, but many games with overworld maps (SNES RPGs like Chrono Trigger, for example) implicitly have toroidal planets due to the navigation.
- bglazer 12y agoSomeone (smarter than me) should program a Pacman clone that takes place on one of these tori.
- throwaway_bob 12y agopacman already takes place on one of these tori
- bglazer 12y agoYes I understand that, I meant on the 3d embedding of it presented in this article
- darkmighty 12y agoIt presents a few powerful ideas so clearly, just from a few minutes you are left a little smarter :) I'll definitely save this as an example...