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You've inventing shapes? I don't get this. |
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I do. And I like it, based though it is on Balls of EVIL! |
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What's there to get? I doubt that the author could invent an original "shape". This certainly isn't one. The idea seems to be an object shaped like this that you can use your hand(s) to canoodle with. |
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Virtually anything small enough to fit one's grasp could be considered a "hand manipulation toy". That's a meaningless description. What makes this any more interesting than a worry stone or a key fob or a paper clip? |
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[waugsqueke] both of these shapes are one sided, so that
when
you roll two mirror imaged versions of the shape together
they perform complicated but repetitive motions that are
quickly learnable but complex enough to be very
addictive and meditative. Manipulating the shapes
requires you to perform a complex but soothing hand
motion -- they're sort of like wory stones that you have to
use more mental energy for than a regular wory stone. |
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And as far as I know these are new shapes. Why do you
doubt that I could invent an original shape? |
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Let me just say I bun this idea. Both for the idea and the shape it comes in. |
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But as for the invention of new shapes? That's a difficult problem. I think it's like doing sums with numbers. we all know two plus two is four, no new numbers there, no new sum, but when I add <insert absurdly high number> to <insert absurdly high number> and come up with < insert ludicrously high number>, have I invented a new number? Have I invented a new sum? no, I don't think so. |
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Thus it is with shapes. If a designer creates a new boat that speeds through the water better because of a new and improved shape, that shape is new in relation to boating, but in relation to the phase space of all possible shapes, there is nothing new about it. |
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When you think this through to the end, like plato did when he stated that all knowledge is but remembrence, one might argue there is no posiblity of ever having a truly original thought, which is in direct contrast to the purpose of this site. |
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//both of these shapes are one sided// |
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How can this be? For every coin must have a side other than the one you see. And if these shapes are to touch butts, you have admitted there are more sides than one to me. |
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A little lyrical nonsense regarding the spherical contents. |
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Regular sphericons have one side and two edges. Both
these shapes have one side and one edge each. A coin
has three sides. If you make mirrored versions of these
shapes then they roll together but each mirrored version
only has one side. |
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