Fashion Emergency #2d #dimensions
Can you tell what's wrong with this picture of our 2D friend? They live in a flat world where there is height and width, but no depth, which means...
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Could we survive being flipped through the fourth dimension? We would become our mirror image, including everything inside of us. Our body's prote...
Replying to @frozen_grapez #platoscave #tibees #4d #math #dimensions
Plato's cave describes prisoners chained in a cave, seeing only shadows on a wall, and believing that's all there is. To them, those shadows are r...
Replying to @Moxy Biproxy Plato’s cave is about more than 3D/4D shadows, but it is interesting to think about how it could apply here #4d #dimensions
I'm going to read to you what Plato originally wrote about the cave. "Behold, human beings living in an underground bin which has a mouth open tow...
Do we see in 2D?
You can only see 2D, even though you are a 3D creature experiencing a 3D world. It's not possible for us to look at all angles of a 3D object at t...
Tram ticket to the past #4d #dimensions #tibees
I just brought home these absolute gems from the library. They're written by Charles Hinton, this one, an episode of Flatland, hails from 1907, wh...
Vertically unchallenged
What would our 2D friend do if they encountered an obstacle without knowledge of the third dimension, they wouldn't be able to go around. They cou...
4D puppet show
Welcome to my Shadow Puppet Show. This is a dog. This is a deer. And this is a bird. The shadows are flat, two-dimensional projections of the shap...
long neck
I've been drawing my 2D friends like this, but I'm worried that might not make sense. For many reasons, but the one I'll address here is that they...
A² #flatland #tibees #dimensions
famous book about other dimensions is Flatland. It was published in 1884 and it follows the story of the main character named A Square, who lives ...
Thiccness #math #dimensions #Tibees
say there is a two-dimensional world where everything is assumed to be infinitely thin and constrained to only exist on the plane of this piece of...
Is gravity 4D?
Imagine our friend living in a two-dimensional world. Here they are standing between two galaxies, which are both radiating light and the gravitat...