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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Blasphemous geometry

  Lovecraft talked about that shit in his stories a lot.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like the concept of Eldritch horror that it is so fearful and alien that its impossible to describe in terms that could make you feel it. The most that words could do would give a view of the shadow of it instead of the horror itself. To finally understand the horror requires surrendering your sanity. If nothing else its a great literary tool.

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This makes all the difference between a good Call of Cthulhu DM and a bad one.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The ‘firefall’ novels (‘blindsight’ and ‘echopraxia’) are… Not exactly that, but very close, and better written than lovecraft could dream of. ‘Echopraxia’ does not hold your fucking hand at all though.

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  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you look at renderings of what 4D objects would look like intersecting 3D space, this is what I imagine for those. Seeing 3D cross sections morphing continuously but inconceivably into each other without being able to even comprehend the true form of the thing you’re seeing glimpses of would be terrifying.

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    • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You should look at higher than 4D renderings, like high dimensional hypercubes, as don’t forget non-euclidean geometry

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Non-euclidian fuckery

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    • three@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good name for a mathrock band.

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  • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    but this is not impossible or out of ordinary though. you can even imagine stacking a couple cardboard boxes into that shape. i think it’s out of place because it’s too ordinary, because you’d expect some kind of symmetry, regularity, etc. from idealized mathematical shapes, but you didn’t. instead you just get some random looking stack of boxes.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fyi this is just the best known packing of 17 squares, there might be a better one. We just haven’t been able to proove it or find a better one since 1998

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If killing Cthulhu is all it takes to solve the box-packing problem, Amazon would have already done it. No, this is something far more sinister than that.

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• NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can sense a middle finger coming from this image, somehow.

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  • BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I see what you mean

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  • camr_on@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I see an amongi

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• ms264556@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  kingbird.myphotos.cc/…/squares_in_squares.html

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The rub with this design is that the length of the sides of the little squares is not an even integer division of the length of the sides of the big square, though.

    Doing it the naive way, i.e. keeping all the edges parallel, you can only fit 16. However it’s trivial to fit 17 in there without it looking like a warehouse accident, like so:

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    Or, a slightly easier to follow rendering:

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The postet arrangement is the tightest known packing of 17 squares. So unless you’ve just found one no mathematician has thought of since 1998 yours is slightly larger.

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    • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep, if I’m not mistaken, your version has s = 4 + sqrt(2) which is approximately 4.70710678119. Very close to the ideal!

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    • anyhow2503@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a link for alternate packings on that page, where you can see older versions, some with more aesthetically pleasing patterns of minimal tilted squares or symmetry. All of them use a larger value for s though and it’s hard to tell where your version would fit in.

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    • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      WITCHCRAFT!

      (… which makes it very cool!)

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