Segerman and Matsumoto collaborated on the hyperbolic virtual reality experience with a collective of mathematician-artists called eleVR to make the work of the geometry experts easier and more productive. "The virtual reality takes something that would normally live in a set of equations, and makes something you can interact with." "Visualizations can help to prove theorems that are purely abstract, and physicists want to get an intuition for what's going on," said Matsumoto, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Physics. We recognize this geometry when we look at buildings, desks or coffee cups. If you warp a Euclidean plane like a Pringle's potato chip, giving it hyperbolic curves, you get an idea of hyperbolic geometry. Since we usually live in a Euclidean reality, the warped plane would now look to us like a three-dimensional object, but it's still a plane, so it's really two-dimensional. That warp changes principles: Parallel lines curve away from each other triangles have warped lines, and there's no such thing as a rectangle as we know it.
And when you've warped the plane, it warps all of space at the same time. Matsumoto and Segerman's new virtual reality program detects head motions in 3D Euclidean space and warps them into virtual movement in 3D hyperbolic space.
And it gives the VR wearer a visual output that is Euclidean, i.e. Hyperbolic geometry isn't just hypothetical. It describes some actual physics, and is yet another example that there's more to reality than meets the eye.įor example, gravity from massive celestial bodies bends rays of light. Accordingly, hyperbolic geometry was helpful in arriving at the Theory of Relativity, which describes realities of spacetime outside the habits of human perception, though not completely out of perceptual reach. If you consciously encountered hyperbolic geometry, you'd be capable of experiencing it. Sources: IMDB, Wikipedia, Superpower Wiki, Villains Wiki."If we were in it, we could see it, feel it or walk through it," Matsumoto said. He can manifest his powers in various ways, such as transforming his own appearance, creating objects from nothing, animating objects, possessing people and granting himself superhuman attributes. He was played by Robert Englund in those movies, but was recently played by Jackie Earle Haley in the 2010 reboot of the franchise.įreddy is a deceased child killer who appears in the dreams of his victims - a place in which he has complete control over reality. Jason (in which he goes up against another horror icon in Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees). The terrifying horror villain first appeared in 1984's A Nightmare on Elm Street and has since appeared in 1985's A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, 1987's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, 1988's A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, 1989's A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, 1991's Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, 1994's Wes Craven's New Nightmare and 2003's Freddy vs.
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Here are the ten most iconic reality-warpers in movie history (note, this will not be in order of most powerful and will actively avoid iterations of God himself).įreddy Krueger is undoubtedly the most iconic reality-warper in the history of cinema. Reality-warping is a superpower that is fairly commonplace in comic books - the likes of Franklin Richards, Mad Jim Jaspers, Mister Mxyzptlk and Proteus, for example, have exhibited the ability to alter reality on various scales - but it's not restricted to that particular media.Ī number of iconic movie characters have also displayed such superpowers and we're going to run through the best of them.
Why? Well because reality-warping effectively enables the wielder of said power to alter reality to suit their preferences and, as such, do pretty much anything - which, when you think about it, potentially includes granting themselves any other superpower imaginable. Well, the answer is quite obviously "none of the above." The ultimate superpower to possess is undoubtedly reality-warping. What is the ultimate superpower? Super strength? Super speed? Invisibility? Telepathy? It's a tough choice, right?
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