Fools!
…limiting themselves to Euclidean geometry…
Only one of them is limiting himself to Euclidean geometry. The others are perfectly calm.
“…waving a gun around!?…”
You beat me to it.
Also perhaps one of the middle lines is unlabled and the diagram isn’t at all to scale (or is the result of forced perspective?) but I think that exhausts my interpretive charitability quota for the day lol
Looks like a tetrahedron to me.
Exactly! The diagram is simply a schematic.
Just wanted to … nevermind.
Too late is too is too late is …
exactly what I came here to say
Saddle shaped universe confirmed
Ah, D&D rules
Pffft, Dnd had the 'first diagonal 5, second diagonal 10' rule. It worked well enough, aye?
It doesn't anymore =(
5e uses diagonal = 5'
Alternating diagonals is in the (2014) DMG as an optional rule at least
Oh good! Octagons are a much better approximation of a circle than squares
4e just used "squares" instead of 5 feet, but it, like 5e, used chebyshev distances.
Pathfinder 2e uses alternating diagonals though.
Well anything after 3.5e is a watered-down, bastardized version of the game anyway.
Well you see, space isn't flat in this very localized area!
calm down, they're constraints on distance, not distance
ikr? It's like some people don't even recognize a tetrahedron
if the people were aranged in 3d in the shape of a tetrahedron (triangular pyramid) this would work out fine
No
Unless the measurement is from the corner to where the lines cross (peak of the pyramid), but that is not at all clear from how the diagram is drawn.
It's not a square based pyramid, it's a triangular based pyramid. Imagine the top right hand one floating up onto the air and moving to hover above the centre of the other three (which move to make an equalateral triangle). The distances work but the layout changes.
What? Everytime I meet other people we always arange ourselves in the shape of a simplex of the appropriate dimension. Doesn't everyone?
So the fifth person to arrive moves to the centre of the tetrahedron and shifts roughly 1.299m into the past or future.
I have a few questions.
No one said right angles.
This is so good hahaha
Thank you
Middle one should be 2,12m. 😤
Or the other 4 should be 1,06m if the middle one is correct.
It clearly says 1.5m
Explanation:
So, Theres the sentence of Pythagoras. It says that c^2^ = a^2^ + b^2^ when the triangle has a 90° corner
Since a square is just 2 triangles, it applies. That means c (the distance from Person a to Person c) should be √(2×1.90^2^). But that is 2.7m.
These instructions are in 3d.
Even if we would take it from the head of person a to the toe of c, its still a triangle
Middle one should be the square root of 4.5 meters, or 2.12 meters
Tetrahedrons man, tetrahedrons.
So this makes me wonder if one could force a move into a higher dimension by somehow constraining a set of connected distances in this way.
Sort of like protein folding as a way to bootstrap a dimensional jump.
You might like And He Built a Crooked House by Robert Heinlein - the story of a tesseract-shaped house that folds itself into a real tesseract during an earthquake.
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