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by papernuke » Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:14 am
here http://tetraspace.alkaline.org/wiki/ind ... itle=Swock in the wiki says that we have 2d paper, but isnt it still 3d? its very thin, but it still has hight.
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by pat » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:06 am
What it's getting at there is that we only write-on/read-from two dimensions of the paper. If we had a 8.5"x11"x14.25"x6.5" paper, we'd be wasting a bunch of paper since we can't print on most of it nor could we see what was printed on most of it if we did manage.
Yes, paper's three-dimensional, but it's so very thin that we could make the same use of it if it were really only two-dimensional.
Yes, paper's three-dimensional, but it's so very thin that we could make the same use of it if it were really only two-dimensional.
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by houserichichi » Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:29 pm
If paper were truly 2-dimensional I'd make airplanes and throw them at people just to see what happened.
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by Nick » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:37 pm
Paper is 3d, but the writing on the paper is two dimensional characters. Like your computer screen; yes, the pixels are three-dimensional, but there is only one layer to look at.
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