Independent Animation Spotlight: Flatland: The Film
Scott Green, Aint it Cool News
The latest incarnation of Nintendo's Mario franchise plays with the idea of flipping a two dimensional world such that depth is added to the previously expected length and height....
In Super Paper Mario, the famous Italian plumber can briefly transverse the
third dimension in order to solve puzzles. Trying to perceive the world in fewer than three dimensions,
then more than three is a fun parlor game that quickly goes from the comprehendible to the impossibly abstract.
This allure of trying to process the world through a different set of parameters easily explains why
Edwin A. Abbott's
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
is a constant presence in the geek cannon.
A Square and A Sphere fly back to Messiah, Incorporated
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