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 > <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
