Comments on: I IS FOLDED FRUM NON-EUCLIDEAN PAPER http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/ CTHULHU FHTAGN ANOTHER CHEEZBURGER? Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:08:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dustin Stewart http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-164 Dustin Stewart Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:13:44 +0000 http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-164 Slight mistake, the octopus head is Creative Origami by Kunihiko Kasahara. Wrong book, same author. I have too many books. Slight mistake, the octopus head is Creative Origami by Kunihiko Kasahara. Wrong book, same author. I have too many books.

]]> By: UD http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-143 UD Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:58:16 +0000 http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-143 'All at once the question became academic- a situation the old man dreaded, since he was not an academic type. With a squeal of splintering wood, the roof lifted from the walls, wrenched up and back by a immense fog-wreathed reptilian-looking claw. The old man bolted for the front door. A second claw reached down and lifted him high into the misty gloom. Two bilious green lights became visible in the fog above him. As he rose higher and higher, he realized that they were terrible eyes, located in the midst of a huge octopuslike head fringed with dangling, writing tentacles. By what power those orbs had picked him out of the fog, he had no idea. But he knew he was dealing with something far beyond his ken, something unguessably eldritch and cacodaemonical and non-Euclidean. "So, you think I'm non-Euclidean, huh?" the monstrosity boomed. "Well, sir..." the storekeeper squeaked. "Do you even know what non-Euclidean means?" "Doesn't it have to do with the geometry of curved surfaces?" "Yeah." "Well, unless I'm mistaken, sir, you're all made up of curved surfaces. Particularly that octopuslike head of yours. And if we drew triangles on you, and computed the angles, we'd get non-Euclidean results." "Well, so what? That means you're basically non-Euclidean too." "Very true, sir. But I was still quite correct in applying the word to you." "What is this, flyspeck? I thought you weren't an academic type?" ' - Mark E. Rogers, "The Sword Of Samurai Cat" Dunno, mentions of non-Euclidean anything always makes me think of this... ‘All at once the question became academic- a situation the old man dreaded, since he was not an academic type. With a squeal of splintering wood, the roof lifted from the walls, wrenched up and back by a immense fog-wreathed reptilian-looking claw. The old man bolted for the front door.
A second claw reached down and lifted him high into the misty gloom. Two bilious green lights became visible in the fog above him. As he rose higher and higher, he realized that they were terrible eyes, located in the midst of a huge octopuslike head fringed with dangling, writing tentacles. By what power those orbs had picked him out of the fog, he had no idea. But he knew he was dealing with something far beyond his ken, something unguessably eldritch and cacodaemonical and non-Euclidean.
“So, you think I’m non-Euclidean, huh?” the monstrosity boomed.
“Well, sir…” the storekeeper squeaked.
“Do you even know what non-Euclidean means?”
“Doesn’t it have to do with the geometry of curved surfaces?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, unless I’m mistaken, sir, you’re all made up of curved surfaces. Particularly that octopuslike head of yours. And if we drew triangles on you, and computed the angles, we’d get non-Euclidean results.”
“Well, so what? That means you’re basically non-Euclidean too.”
“Very true, sir. But I was still quite correct in applying the word to you.”
“What is this, flyspeck? I thought you weren’t an academic type?” ‘

- Mark E. Rogers, “The Sword Of Samurai Cat”

Dunno, mentions of non-Euclidean anything always makes me think of this…

]]> By: Mister Nice Guy 1960 http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-125 Mister Nice Guy 1960 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:41:57 +0000 http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-125 So, I guess you're not using A4 paper to fold that thing? So, I guess you’re not using A4 paper to fold that thing?

]]> By: xolotl http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-124 xolotl Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:26:47 +0000 http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-124 If by that you mean that I've posted three macros involving the term "non-euclidean" over the course of six months, then yes. :) I suppose it is one of my favorite themes, though. If by that you mean that I’ve posted three macros involving the term “non-euclidean” over the course of six months, then yes. :)

I suppose it is one of my favorite themes, though.

]]> By: Catman03 http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-123 Catman03 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:23:38 +0000 http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-123 That's super special awesome. You really like the whole non-euclidean joke don't you Xolotl? That’s super special awesome. You really like the whole non-euclidean joke don’t you Xolotl?

]]> By: Cap'n Jewbeard http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-118 Cap'n Jewbeard Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:17:22 +0000 http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-118 Whoah. *Covet*. Whoah. *Covet*.

]]> By: Zoe Griffin http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-117 Zoe Griffin Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:43:09 +0000 http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-117 This is amazingly great...not to mention creative! Thanks! This is amazingly great…not to mention creative! Thanks!

]]> By: robert http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-116 robert Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:44:28 +0000 http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-116 awesome beyond words! awesome beyond words!

]]> By: xolotl http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-38 xolotl Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:01:54 +0000 http://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/2008/01/02/i-is-folded-frum-non-euclidean-paper/#comment-38 From the submitter: "The head is an octopus from <strike>Origami Omnibus</strike> <b>Creative Origami</b> <em>(corrected 2008.01.09)</em> by Kunihiko Kasahara. The body is a dragon from Origami to Astonish and Amuse, by Jeremy Shafer." Way awesome. From the submitter: “The head is an octopus from Origami Omnibus Creative Origami (corrected 2008.01.09) by Kunihiko Kasahara. The body is a dragon from Origami to Astonish and Amuse, by Jeremy Shafer.” Way awesome.

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