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Turtle Graphics in R
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Turtle moving in N-dimensions ! #28

Open globalvestor opened 10 years ago

globalvestor commented 10 years ago

Here is a great challenge for the team to get the Turtle moving in N-Dimensions. Can it be done? Thanks. Desmond

gagolews commented 10 years ago

n==3 could be plot with rgl. but how to present the results for higher ns? ask the user for a proper projection matrix -> 2d/3d?

globalvestor commented 10 years ago

I am afraid I do not have the answers. It has always been the problem and difficult to present visuals greater than 3D onto 2D.

Perhaps someone out there has already solved the problem and could assist the team. The Turtle should be able to move in the N-Dimensions and perhaps also be able to show a visual for a difference of 3D on 2D for example 6D to 9D for a start.

I could envisage that Turtle Graphics could be applied as an alternative approach to modelling the Universe down to the quantum level since nature is fractal and is recursive.

Kind Regards, Desmond

On 18 June 2014 16:48, Marek Gagolewski notifications@github.com wrote:

n==3 could be plot with rgl. but how to present the results for higher ns? ask the user for a proper projection matrix -> 2d/3d?

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gagolews commented 10 years ago

Anyway, thanks for this nice idea. I think that it's worth starting with the 3D case, and then we can see how to optimize the viewport w.r.t. user friendliness. But this is a material for a separate package - it cannot be grid graphics-based