October 20, 2005. Rudy interviewed at KFJC while reading stories from The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. The question here is “Tell us about your early influences.” (6.28MB. min.)
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Archive for October, 2005
Podcast #9. Interview: Rucker’s Early Life. At KFJC
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More 4D Links
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
My artist friend Tony Robbin makes beautiful paintings based on 4D notions such as projections of hypercube tesselations.
A couple of years back, my SJSU student Wyley Dai realized a longterm dream of mine by creating a 4D Space Invaders style game for his Master’s Thesis project. Once I’d gotten students to do 4D Space Invaders, 3D Belousov-Zhabotinsky scrolls, and a surfing game based on a CA running the wave equation — it was time to retire.
Paul Mavrides sent me a link to a psychedelic article, in a seemingly legit physics journal called Symmetry, which shows quarks as cute twists.
Podcast #8. Reading.”Aint Paint.” KFJC 3.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Oct 18, 2005. At radio KFJC with Ann Arbor, reading the third “thought experiment” short-short SF story included in The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, see https://www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox. Introduction is included.(1.12MB. min.)
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COOP Cheescake, 4D Links
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005I’m catching up on some links.
LA artist and hotrodder COOP sent me a link to a cool series of entries on his Positive Ape blog, relating to twenty-five stages in constructing the painting whose final version I show above. Well, actually the painting is so intensely erotic that I felt uneasy about posting it as-is on my “family blog” type site, harrumph, so I used the PhotoShop Pixelate:Crystallize filter on it.
Bill Meikle wrote about a mystical experience produced by looking at a hypercube drawing! The picture above is actually of a so-called 600-cell, which is a more complicated kind of 4D object, as shown in my favorite 4D visualization program, ”Hyperspace Polytope Slicer”, by Mark Newbold.
It seems like I get a lot of email about the fourth dimension. Hugh Reid posted a speculation about the fourth dimension and visual reorientation illusions. French physician Jean-Perre Jourdan posted a paper about the fourth dimension and near-death experiences. The picture above is from my notes on “Surfing An Einstein-Rosen Bridge” for my novel Mathematicians In Love which I am about to start revising, having gotten some good suggestions from my Tor editor David Hartwell.