'...changing the form of one's mission's almost as difficult as changing the shape of one's nose:
they are, each, in the middle of one's face and one's character - one has to begin too far back.'
― Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady.
Showing posts with label i2installation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label i2installation. Show all posts
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Eye square
I realize that if our eyes were not 4-dimensional we would not be able to perceive 3 dimensions. We would only be able to see two. It would seem that quaternions function almost intuitively like this. Our ability to move our eyes around and adjust these micro changes in size as a result of their rotation around a fixed point helps us to perceive that eye’s images are two-dimensional representations of a three-dimensional space and assign scalar and rotational symmetries to the three seen dimensions.
Labels:
eyes,
i²,
i2installation,
imaginary numbers,
mathematics,
quaternions,
reality,
vision
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