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ulterno@programming.dev 13 hours ago
I am not on this scale.
How to draw an apple in the mind?
- Start with the seed. It’s full of some stuff and feels solid.
- Cover the seed with a rigid, plasticky smooth membrane. It has not particular taste.
- Stick a lot of mushy watery stuff to the membrane and go outwards.
- At some point, there’s a twig starting to form and goes outward
- Shape the mush
- Cover it with another membrane that’s now, a little less rigid and feels different.
Colour? What colour?
That’s extra charge.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Make a ring in your mind, have it spin.
Make another ring inside the first, have it spin on a different axis than the first.
Make a third ring, put it inside the first two, have it spin on a different axis than the second.
That is as far as I can go, it’s hard, but I can make it look right if I concentrate. I absolutely can not get a 4th ring into the mix, the details get fuzzy and I can’t get it to move right. How far can you go?
ulterno@programming.dev 10 hours ago
I tried visualising 4 dimensions once or twice, but it doesn’t really work out for me.
So I have no way to get that 4th axis for the 4th ring.