{"id":2399,"date":"2017-08-29T21:18:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T05:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2017-08-29T23:44:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T07:44:29","slug":"hyperbolic-geometry-in-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/hyperbolic-geometry-in-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperbolic Geometry in VR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>Math goddess Vi Hart & mathematician Henry Segerman’s virtual reality\u00a0animation<\/a> reveals the gorgeous crystalline formations inherent in hyperbolic 3-space, the negative curvature equivalent of 3D Euclidean space. Great to see it this week on the New York Times<\/em>\u00a0“Daily 360” VR platform.\u00a0This beautiful visualization gives us a psychedelic update on the ground-breaking animation in the legendary 1970’s math film “Not Knot” which describes relationships between knots and hyperbolic space. This mind-blowing film is available here on You Tube<\/a>. And here’s the original version<\/a> of Hart & Segerman’s film from 2016 – simpler graphics but more detailed geometry.<\/p>\n

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  Math goddess Vi Hart & mathematician Henry Segerman’s virtual reality\u00a0animation reveals the gorgeous crystalline formations inherent in hyperbolic 3-space, the negative curvature equivalent of 3D Euclidean space. Great to see it this week on the New York Times\u00a0“Daily 360” VR platform.\u00a0This beautiful visualization gives us a psychedelic update on the ground-breaking animation in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}