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The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two- Dimensional World Pdf, Epub, Ebook THE PLANIVERSE: COMPUTER CONTACT WITH A TWO- DIMENSIONAL WORLD PDF, EPUB, EBOOK A. K. Dewdney | 247 pages | 01 Nov 2000 | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. | 9780387989167 | English | New York, NY, United States The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-dimensional World PDF Book Actually, if anyone wants to do the art for a game, I'm up for the programming side of things. Jan 02, J. Interestingly the book also gives you ways to imagine how the four dimensional world would behave. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed Edwin Abbott's "Flatland", which should be mandatory reading before tackling this book. Categories : Canadian novels science fiction novels Canadian science fiction novels Fictional dimensions Novels about mathematics. This purports to be an account of a computer programming project to simulate of a two- dimensional world. Buy Softcover. It seems that you're in Germany. Dewdny originally created a project for a class which would simulate a two dimensional world. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To go along with the fascinating worldbuilding there is a pretty gripping plot about a 2-dimensional being who befriends some 3-dimensional university students and takes th I think this is probably one of my all- time favorite books. If you were intrigued by Flatland, read this book. Friend Reviews. See if you dig a hole you have to put the material you remove somewhere. There were many little "aha" moments within it, and you can tell it was a ton of fun to develop. With this superiority and ease of understanding, we may extrapolate to the desire to acquaint ourselves with our higher dimensions, and possibly embolden ourselves to try such things as to "Know rather than to learn". Shelves: non-fiction , science , born-to-blush-unseen , science-fiction , humour. The Trek. Of course this book begs comparisons to Flatland An incredible piece of imagination. He is known for being able to disappear and then reappear in a different place, and it seems that the way in which he does this is by going into a third dimension and then coming back into two dimensions. This is when the class begins to really think about Arde differently from Earth. Couldn't resist. The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-dimensional World Writer Recommended with any fan of world building! It's predecessors at least the two I previously mentioned dismiss these questions outright but Dewdney takes them on and really pushes my thinking about these concepts even further. The 2D world is in a computer. There were those who wanted to believe, despite the tongue-in-cheek subtext, that we had made contact with a two-dimensional world called Arde, a di- shaped planet embedded in the skin of a vast, balloon-shaped space called the planiverse. At times I felt the detail of the fiction was a little unnecessary but mostly I found the story of Yendred to be engaging and thought-provoking. Absolutely fascinating book. Dewdney put a lot of thought in the way a civilization must necessarily be set up in a two-dimensional world - how will the laws of physics affect these creatures and their world? Aug 16, Stoa rated it really liked it. The sophisticated simulation includes sentient beings, one of whom is able to communicate with the human investigators. The line between willing suspension of dis- lief and innocent acceptance, if it exists at all, is a thin one. A fascinating book which may be literature but also speculative science and even philosophy. If you can look past the paper thin plot that sets up Yendred's adventures in the Planiverse, you won't be disappointed. If you were intrigued by Flatland, read this book. Showing Friend Reviews. On the down side, I felt it was very little story and too much world building. A book has not excited me this much in a very long time. Flatland 's asshole sphere is traded for a bunch of college students and a teleprinter which is adorable , its top-down view for a more interesting side-scroller, and its endless confusion over dimensions for an exploration of the physical implications of a two-dimensional world. There are lots of asides and text boxes exploring some of the concepts touched upon, as well as appendices that give the Planiverse even more depth. The inhabinates of the world live underground, in homes that could not be built according to the weather they created without flooding. Community Reviews. See if you dig a hole you have to put the material you remove somewhere. In "The Planiverse," we have a frame story that wraps around a travelogue through a two-dimensional world. For this reason, I was forced to give it a 3 rating on "Math. He visits the Punizlan Institute for Technology and Science, where Arde's technology is explored in great detail. When Yendred first crosses paths with another Ardean, Tssil, one of them must lie down on the ground while the other walks over them in order to continue in their original directions since they cannot merely pass by each other. May 05, David Hibberd rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Readers interested in computers, science, and technology. Feb 11, Kate rated it it was amazing Shelves: dude-writer , canadian-author , fiction , sci-fi , science. Eavesdropping on Yendred's conversation, the class learns that he is heading towards Vanizla, in search of something. The same happened with Flatland, the original "two-dimensional universe" narrative. This is when the class begins to really think about Arde differently from Earth. While embedded in a bit of a melodramatic story, the description of a universe of only two dimensions is interesting and much more detailed than the story in Flatland. Show all. The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-dimensional World Reviews And I mean everything - biology, astrophysics, chemistry, weather, transport and traffic, painting, musical instruments, writing, computers, everything. I found the A little slow in the beginning, but a fascinating thought experiment in action. Contributed by anonymous This wasn't fiction was it? It seems that you're in Germany. An appendix explains various other aspects of two-dimensional science and technology which could not fit into the main story. This is a brilliant description of life in a two-dimensional world. Recreations, his column which appeared in Scientific American for more than eight years. However, YNDRD appears on the console a second day, and it becomes apparent that he is not a mistake, but something beyond what was expected. The writing style is very economical and that this is all accomplished in such a concise fashion is a lesson to authors who take two or three times as many pages to achieve far less. This is science-fiction with lots of science in it. May 05, David Hibberd rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Readers interested in computers, science, and technology. While this greatly worries Alice Little, Dewdney's course assistant, the class reaches the conclusion that it was most likely just a mistake caused by a misreading of bits because the FEC soon continues to behave normally. Paperback , pages. It is tempting to imagine that those who believed, as well as those who suspended disbelief, did so because of a persuasive consistency in the cosmology and physics of this in? It resonated a lot more than Flatland. Yendred lives! A book has not excited me this much in a very long time. Rating details. This book asked and answered questions before I even thought of them, and truly expanded the way I thought about the 2nd - and of course, the 3rd and 4th - dimension, as well as tackling ideas about philosophy, evolution, and intelligent ingenuity. Oct 03, Fred D rated it really liked it Shelves: science-fiction. There is some knowledge that Derbk possesses and that Yendred desires to know. They were unnecessary characters that didn't contribute to the story much. Games Workshop Issue 55 : The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-dimensional World Read Online Other Editions If you can look past the paper thin plot that sets up Yendred's adventures in the Planiverse, you won't be disappointed. Moreover, many ideas are repeated Although Planiverse adds a great deal to the universe and is considerably different from that of Flatland. Refresh and try again. See if you dig a hole you have to put the material you remove somewhere. For instance, the chapter in which we view the two-dimensional shallow sea would have been a marvelous opportunity to discuss KdV solitons and Kelvin-Helmholz instabilities! View 1 comment. Maybe it's just me. An appendix explains various other aspects of two-dimensional science and technology which could not fit into the main story. It starts as an exercise in pure physics, mathematics and computer science, until their model som The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two Dimensional World by AK Dewdney The setting is a graduate program in the early 's. Oct 14, Adina rated it it was amazing. Simply put, it is easy to recognize a line as being one dimensional and a square as two dimensional. Very thoroughly researched. That is just 2 chapters into the book. Especially not as they learn about the two dimensional computer in the Punizlan Institute, only one of the more advanced engineering creations in Arde. Dewdney is great- right up there with Martin Gardner for making math, science, and more specific to him computer science interesting and fun. Far more detailed and thought out than, "Flatland", The Planiverse follows characters across their flat environment and explains how all their structures work.
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