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29 Apr 2008, 5:19 pm

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[Specter, there is nothing like that on an internet search I just did. Is this something you made up? Interesting. :?


yeah :lol: I should invent a shape, and assign it the name trapelovaloid. :D then make every student learn it in high school.


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29 Apr 2008, 5:27 pm

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Yes. They're the 'building blocks' of the universe.


Universal blocks to build with topic

Is this some sort of subatomic string theory thing? I am not overly familiar with that branch of physics. :roll:


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29 Apr 2008, 5:29 pm

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Yes. They're the 'building blocks' of the universe.


Universal blocks to build with topic

Is this some sort of subatomic string theory thing? I am not overly familiar with that branch of physics.


ooo, who said what about physics? mayhaps specter can help :D


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29 Apr 2008, 5:56 pm

sim wrote:
Yes. They're the 'building blocks' of the universe.



They've been employed in virtually every school of mysticism and occult thought in human history. In ritual magic, you see them employed in various combinations in sign and sigil to act as archetypal resonators for exploring different levels of the psyche.



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29 Apr 2008, 6:02 pm

I demand that Trapelovaloids be taught to our children!! :D Everyone seems woefully uneducated!! ! xD


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29 Apr 2008, 6:04 pm

Willard wrote:
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Yes. They're the 'building blocks' of the universe.



They've been employed in virtually every school of mysticism and occult thought in human history. In ritual magic, you see them employed in various combinations in sign and sigil to act as archetypal resonators for exploring different levels of the psyche.


That too. I find it damn fascinating that the ancients and medievalists (including Archimedes, Euclid, Boyle, and Newton) founded science on the analysis of basic shapes.



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29 Apr 2008, 6:12 pm

Everyone is woefully uneducated???

Learning about really obscure geometric shapes ... sounds like an insistence on learning algebra. Which saved my life once. :wink:



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29 Apr 2008, 6:40 pm

If a hypercube exists in 4 dimensions, how can it be rendered by three dimensional beings like ourselves?

A tesseract is some earth-shatteringly mystical thing, yes?

:?: :?: :?:



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29 Apr 2008, 6:46 pm

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A tesseract is some earth-shatteringly mystical thing, yes?

:?: :?: :?:


Tesseract=A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle.


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29 Apr 2008, 6:48 pm

A tesseract can't exist at present, because the inside occupies more space than the outside. It is four dimensional, several objects of matter occupying the same space. (yes, I know what some of you are inevitably thinking! Vworp!) If that effect is achievable, it is out of the realms of modern science. But to say it is "not real" is somewhat of a mistake. A 2D shape can't technically exist either, but everything we know today, right down to language, is a product of the 2D shape.

As for being fascinated by them, you should be! The majority of our brains are devoted to breaking down the universe into 2D geometric shapes so we can comprehend it. Without that ability, we would be entirely incapable of interacting with our environment.


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29 Apr 2008, 6:53 pm

If it can be applied to any art technique I am trying out



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29 Apr 2008, 6:55 pm

Roseduelist wrote:
If it can be applied to any art technique I am trying out


i'm sorry, I don't understand that sentence. Could you rephrase?


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29 Apr 2008, 6:57 pm

Daewoodrow wrote:
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If it can be applied to any art technique I am trying out


i sorry, I don't understand that sentence. Could you rephrase?


Could have meant that by using different basic shapes as foundations for technique, like a square being a concrete, realistic style. A circle being 'non-angular' and free-flowing in effect. Don't have any more time to explain, gotta go!

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29 Apr 2008, 7:27 pm

I like pyramids - my favourite shape.


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29 Apr 2008, 9:31 pm

Daewoodrow wrote:
A tesseract can't exist at present, because the inside occupies more space than the outside. It is four dimensional, several objects of matter occupying the same space. (yes, I know what some of you are inevitably thinking! Vworp!) If that effect is achievable, it is out of the realms of modern science. But to say it is "not real" is somewhat of a mistake.

A tesseract was used in the novel for time travel, not just space travel. I believe folding space is certainly possible, even though we can't do it yet, but time travel is not. Of course time exists, but much of our understanding of time is a man-made construct.



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29 Apr 2008, 9:38 pm

slowmutant wrote:
If a hypercube exists in 4 dimensions, how can it be rendered by three dimensional beings like ourselves?


A rotating hypercube:

Image

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