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Re: Hyper-spacial ray-tracer

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On Saturday, October 5, 2013 8:17:52 AM UTC+8, Rouslan Korneychuk wrote:
> On 10/04/2013 04:23 PM, Tony the Tiger wrote:
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> > On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:05:32 -0400, Rouslan Korneychuk wrote:
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> >> game
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> > Sorry, but that sounds awful. I hate games.
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> This... isn't a game or even related to gaming. Is it because of the use 
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> of Pygame that you thought it was. I use Pygame because it's a wrapper 
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> for SDL, which gives you cross-platform graphics, input and even thread 
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> support, and because the additional drawing and font modules are useful 
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> for prototyping and implementing user-interfaces for navigating 
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> higher-dimensional space.
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> The point of this was to explore the concept of hyperspace, which is a 
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> mathematical curiosity and also has relevance in theoretical physics.
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> One idea I had for this was to simulate some sort of 3D scene involving 
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> physics (probably in another program, such as Blender), take the 
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> resulting coordinates of the geometry at every time interval and plot it 
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> as one 4D static scene. Every pair of connected vertexes would be 
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> extruded from one instant in time, to the next, so each object is a 
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> continuous 4D extrusion. When viewing with your local XYZ axes aligned 
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> with the global XYZ axes, you would see one instant of the scene as 
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> normal. Moving along the fourth axis, which I'll call T, will let you 
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> see the same, earlier or later in time, but if you rotate parallel to 
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> the T axis, you will effectively replace one of X, Y or Z with T. In 
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> essence you will turn the time axis into a spacial axis and the spacial 
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> axis into a time axis.
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> Looking at a scene with space and time lumped into one 4D space might 
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> help in trying to better understand time, why it's different, and its 
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> relationship with space.
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> I was also wondering about general relativity. I'm not going to go into 
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> too much detail, but basically: if an object with synchronized clocks on 
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> either end of it, passes by a static observer while traveling near the 
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> speed of light, to the outside observer, the object will appear shorter 
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> and the clocks will appear desynchronized, and from the object's 
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> perspective, it is the outside observer that becomes distorted this way. 
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> I was wondering if this seemingly strange effect is actually the natural 
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> consequence of a simple geometric transformation, such as rotation into 
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> the time axis.

Use the synchronous digital logics 
with a globbal clock by iterators of 
various actions for this kind of
projects in Python.

Please check myHDL and Python.
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Hyper-spacial ray-tracer Rouslan Korneychuk <rouslank@msn.com> - 2013-10-02 17:05 -0400
  Re: Hyper-spacial ray-tracer Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2013-10-04 15:23 -0500
    Re: Hyper-spacial ray-tracer Rouslan Korneychuk <rouslank@msn.com> - 2013-10-04 20:17 -0400
      Re: Hyper-spacial ray-tracer Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-05 11:41 +1000
        Re: Hyper-spacial ray-tracer Rouslan Korneychuk <rouslank@msn.com> - 2013-10-04 23:00 -0400
      Re: Hyper-spacial ray-tracer 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@gmail.com> - 2013-10-04 23:13 -0700
      [OT] Re: Hyper-spacial ray-tracer Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2013-10-05 15:26 +0000
        Re: [OT] Re: Hyper-spacial ray-tracer Rouslan Korneychuk <rouslank@msn.com> - 2013-10-05 14:14 -0400

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