{"id":165,"date":"2005-10-18T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=165"},"modified":"2005-10-18T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T16:34:13","slug":"coop-cheescake-4d-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/18\/coop-cheescake-4d-links\/","title":{"rendered":"COOP Cheescake, 4D Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m catching up on some links.
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LA artist and hotrodder COOP sent me a link to a cool series of entries on his Positive Ape<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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Bill Meikle wrote about a mystical experience<\/a> 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”<\/a>, by Mark Newbold.<\/p>\n

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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<\/a>. French physician Jean-Perre Jourdan posted a paper about the fourth dimension and near-death experiences<\/a>. The picture above is from my notes on “Surfing An Einstein-Rosen Bridge”<\/a> for my novel Mathematicians In Love<\/i> which I am about to start revising, having gotten some good suggestions from my Tor editor David Hartwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}