What my cat looks for. On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 15:08 Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I've just been teaching my youngest about the 4th - nth dimensions. Time is > not the 4th but the 1st temporal dimension. If the 3 spatial dimensions are > Length, height and width then the 4th is depth, ie, going inwards and > outwards as the easiest way to picture it (but not truly representative). > That being the case, how would you describe the 5th spacial dimension. > That'll twist your noggin if it's not something you've thought of before :) > > Sean > > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 21:55, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > Heh! That reminds me, I knew a British professor once who used the > > illustration that a two dimensional being, confronted with a line would > > perceive it as impassible. He then went on to explain how it might be > that > > a 3 dimensional being, when needing to see into the future might perceive > > it as impossible, whereas to a 4th dimensional being, that is not bound > by > > time, would not. > > > > Bob S > > > > > > > On Jun 17, 2019, at 13:24 , Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode < > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > > > Sure. I do it all the time and everybody knows how 1D I am. > > > > > > Some random thoughts: > > > > > > A Turing machine might be considered 1D. It can draw x,y. > > > > > > This past month, I was working in very high dimensions. I was not able > > to visualize that very well and used dimension reduction techniques such > as > > PCA, UMAP and t-SNE to help. I would guess the 1D being might have to do > > something similar for "visualization". Maybe. > > > > > > Lewis and Clark went on a path or route, 1D, and took measurements that > > allowed them to create a 2D map. That is, the space of the 1D path was > > assumed to bend in a 2D space. > > > > > > The floor of my lab looks 2D to me, but I have latitude and longitude > > marked for the center. That labelling assumes a curving into 3D. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode