And this is a 2d image of a 3d projection of a basic 4d shape that we literally cannot comprehend
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Gutek8134@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoTechnically speaking, all images are 2d projections
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s not. The walls shown here are impossible, get clipped, but the shape itself is 3D.
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Don’t know what you are talking about. I can perfectly comprehend it, it’s a gif with moving colours.
Siethron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We’ve never seen anything 2 dimensional. Everything we can see has some form of all 3 dimensions in it. Even shadows are 3 dimensional. We conceptualize them as 2 dimensional on a wall, but they have depth. (Think of how when you see a line it’s actually 2 dimensional due to the width of the line, then apply that concept to depth as well)
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A shadow is not the same as a line drawn by a pencil. And a 2d line can be for example the contrast of two colours, the “line” that delimits an object from your perspective - these are no drawn lines with any width, they are not there as full 3d objects. I would think a shadow is a similar case, just as a film projection. It has no thickness.
Siethron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well shadows are the absence of light, so defining them is a little weird, but they exist the entire distance from where the light source is interrupted to where they are projected on, same with projections, it’s not just what’s on the screen, but the light the whole way to the screen.
Even ignoring that, the surface that a projection lands on has texture and depth.
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, you can definitely ignore that and just take thw projection and view it as something 2d. The fact that the surface is structured doesn’t mean the projection is not 2d - it is 2d curved in the 3d dimension, just like a 1d line can be curved without gaining any thickness. Just like our 3d space is curved.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A shadow is a 2d projection of a 3d object projected back onto 3d space.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Two dimensional projections can be represented in three dimensional space. Even single dimensional entities are welcome here.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
If you look at a sheet of paper on edge, you can see a poor man’s representation of one dimension, while hiding an additional dimension, made in the only way you can actually have a thing to hold with yet one more
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
YOUR MOMS BRA SIZE IS A 2D PROJECTION
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well yeah, that’s how it fits on the tag.