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Posted By: Ares | Date: 4/6/02 7:13 a.m. | |
In Response To: Re: Marathon engine put to good use (Tru7h) : hehe in my scenario thers a dream level wich is called "Try using the
: the whole thing fits in a 7by 7 WU square:) : its got normal space, 5Dspace (space iside space), 6Dspace (space inside
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Well... if I may correct your terminology a bit, you would only be using four spacial dimensions no matter how many times you overlap. In fact, the marathon engine can't even model TRUE 4-D space (I'm ignoring time for the moment and just referring to the spacial dimensions). All the Marathon engine can do is make 3-D space move through four dimensions. If that doesn't make sense, think of the following analogy: Suppose you have a piece of paper that represents two spacial dimensions. Now suppose that you fold this piece of paper in a series of elaborate ways through three dimensions. This is what the Marathon engine does. With the paper analogy, you have not created a solid (or a 3-D object;) you have merely moved the paper through three dimensions, even though the paper itself is still two dimensional (i.e. say its graph paper; you can still describe any point on the paper with two coordinates, no matter how you fold it). So what you can do with Forge is model a 3-D space that is not confined to "twisting" through the three spacial dimensions. But in no case do you ever even touch the fifth spacial dimension or any higher ones.
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