You say “apple” to me and I’m #1, glossy skin, insides, all that

And how in the hell does one navigate life, or enjoy a book, if they’re not a #1?! Reading a book is like watching a movie. I subconsciously assign actor’s faces to characters and watch as the book rolls on.

Yet #5’s are not handicapped in the slightest. They’re so “normal” that mankind is just now figuring out we’re far apart on this thing. Fucking weird.

EDIT: Showed this to my wife and she was somewhat mystified as to what I was asking. Pretty sure she’s a 5. I get frustrated as hell when I ask her to describe a thing and she’s clueless. “Did the radiator hose pop off, or is it torn and cracked?” “I don’t know!”

EDIT2: The first Star Wars book after the movie came out was Splinter in the Mind’s Eye. I feel like I got that title. What’s it mean to you?

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    I tried visualising 4 dimensions once or twice, but it doesn’t really work out for me.
    So I have no way to get that 4th axis for the 4th ring.

    It’s extremely easy upto the 2 rings and I am also able to change the axes while moving them.
    The moment I add a 3rd ring, the difficulty seems to abruptly increase, making me take quite a while to imagine it and even the slightest diversion, making me forget the simulation.

    I just realised that in your explanation, you didn’t explicitly require orthogonal axes. Now it makes more sense to try the 4th ring. Perhaps I will try doing that when I am about to sleep, after doing the 3 rings for a while and see if I am able to do so.
    There is a way to cheat yourself out of this, by first making the animation and watching it on a screen and then internalising it. I will keep that for later, after knowing how well I can do without it.

    I also feel the need to say that while in my above description, I am able to do something similar to visualisation, that doesn’t really help me in drawing stuff. Even when I try using a 3D CAD program, that way of visualisation ends up making it harder for me to make it. Instead, I need to force myself to reduce the extra information of touch and feel and taste, to make it easier for me to model it and it takes further effort to make a 2D projection.