And He Built A Crooked House in Second Life
Second Life is a 3D virtual world that is conceptualized and built by its residents. What they can and cannot do is limited only by their imaginations. In maybe over the 200,000 or more inhabitants this house built by Seifert Surface, will raise your penchant for the unknown and the unexplainable.
He takes on his inspiration from one of the Big Three of Science fiction – along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke – Robert A. Heinlein’s “—And He Built a Crooked House—” published in Astounding Science Fiction in February of 1941. It delves into what the main character (Quintus Teal) thinks is a brilliant idea to save on real estate costs – build a house shaped like the unfolded net of a tesseract.
The moment you step into Seifert’s house you’d immediately be transported into an alternate reality. The madness begins when you push the button by the foyer and start going from room to room as shown in this video.
“It’s the eight cube sides of a four dimensional hypercube,” Seifert explains. “Just like a normal 3D cube has six square sides, and a normal 2D square has four line sides, so the sequence continues. And just like if you were an ant walking on the faces of a cube, if you go four times in one direction, you end up back where you started. Also, if you make three ninety degree turns, you come back where you started.”
The only question left is, how it’s done. The rooms are programmed to literally move, so that the person that is inside the house is always in a hypercube. And that heÂ’s a grad student of three dimensional topology and geometry at Stanford. That’s how.
“When you step into a room, the other rooms cluster around it so that they’re always connected together the right way. But it only works for one focus.”
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Second Life is a 3D virtual world that is conceptualized and built by its residents. What they can and cannot do is limited only by their imaginations. In maybe over the 200,000 or more inhabitants this house built by Seifert Surface, will raise your penchant for the unknown and the unexplainable.
He takes on his inspiration from one of the Big Three of Science fiction – along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke – Robert A. Heinlein’s “—And He Built a Crooked House—” published in Astounding Science Fiction in February of 1941. It delves into what the main character (Quintus Teal) thinks is a brilliant idea to save on real estate costs – build a house shaped like the unfolded net of a tesseract.
The moment you step into Seifert’s house you’d immediately be transported into an alternate reality. The madness begins when you push the button by the foyer and start going from room to room as shown in this video.
“It’s the eight cube sides of a four dimensional hypercube,” Seifert explains. “Just like a normal 3D cube has six square sides, and a normal 2D square has four line sides, so the sequence continues. And just like if you were an ant walking on the faces of a cube, if you go four times in one direction, you end up back where you started. Also, if you make three ninety degree turns, you come back where you started.”
The only question left is, how it’s done. The rooms are programmed to literally move, so that the person that is inside the house is always in a hypercube. And that heÂ’s a grad student of three dimensional topology and geometry at Stanford. That’s how.
“When you step into a room, the other rooms cluster around it so that they’re always connected together the right way. But it only works for one focus.”
Via nwn
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