Curved Spaces

5th March, 2010

I’m currently having terrific fun playing around on Jeff Weeks’ flight simulator, Curved Spaces. Unlike most flight-simulators, the action takes place not in regular Euclidean space, but in a selection of 3-manifolds. (It’s also comforting that you don’t have to worry about crashing.) Highly recommended!

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3 Responses to “Curved Spaces”

  1. From JAM:

    March 12th, 2010 at 2:22 pm

    Should you not be spending time writing so that you have time to attend special events at other peoples’ houses?

  2. From Richard:

    March 12th, 2010 at 2:26 pm

    Believe me, I am spending a lot of time writing.

  3. From Zen Harper:

    March 21st, 2010 at 10:24 am

    Hi again, people; greetings from Shanghai!!!

    What fun! Being slightly more violently-minded, I have for a long while wondered if there is a version of DOOM or some similar computer game in hyperbolic space…it would be fun to try to program such a thing, if I had the time, but unfortunately I don’t – the joys of employment!