Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sgi!ciemo@bananapc.SGI.COM From: ciemo@bananapc.SGI.COM (Dave Ciemiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: 3-D perceptual abilities Summary: Noise Message-ID: <25996@sgi.SGI.COM> Date: 2 Feb 89 02:06:44 GMT References: <6382@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <25867@sgi.SGI.COM> Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 30 In article <25867@sgi.SGI.COM>, sfisher@abingdon.SGI.COM (Scott Fisher) writes: > In article <60@opus.ATT.COM>, cab@opus.ATT.COM (C. Anthony) writes: > > > > Visualizing all the dimensions, and translating between them is a > > breeze for me....up till the fourth dimension (tm). The closest I've come > > Is conceiving of a universe in which all stages of the universes evolution > > simultaneously co-exist, and you can flip back and forth between them. > > sort of like video still frame, where you can go to the previous and next > > frames. > > Not a bad analogy. Some computer animation packages let > you do just such a thing--manipulate the object in 4D just > as a solid modeller lets you in 3D or a paint program does > in 2D. It's not quite as grandiose as your conception, but > it's a good way to demonstrate one possible fourth dimension. > > And of course... there is a fifth dimension, beyond those > we know. It is... oh, nevermind. > > I'm familiar with the Fifth Dimension. They were a musical group from the early seventies. One of their most popular hits was "Age of Aquarius." Me, I'm a Taurus. -- Dave (commonplace) "Boldly going where no one cares to go." Ciemiewicz (incomprehensible) ciemo (infamous)