▲ 774 ▼ 3D Print some math. (thelemmy.club) submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 39 comments fedilink hide all child comments http://www.3dprintmath.com/
[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago (2 children) Isn't "3rd dimensional plane" an oxymoron? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 5 months ago I mean typically people refer to planes as hyperplanes once you go past 3D, but I’ve definitely heard them just called “planes” too Hyperplanes are just a generalization of planes to higher dimensions. Often you hear the term when working with vectors because, like in 3D, you can define an n-dimensional hyperplane by a surface normal vector and a point. All lines perpendicular (orthogonal) to that normal vector which pass through the point form the plane. It’s a useful concept and since we already have a word for that kind of structure in 3D space we just use the same term for it in other dimensions permalink fedilink source parent [–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago Hmmm. I don’t think so but I do think it is incorrectly used here. To me, the 3rd dimensional plane would just be the z axis. If you were talking about the entire 3D shape which they are here, I would just say 3rd dimension. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 5 months ago I mean typically people refer to planes as hyperplanes once you go past 3D, but I’ve definitely heard them just called “planes” too Hyperplanes are just a generalization of planes to higher dimensions. Often you hear the term when working with vectors because, like in 3D, you can define an n-dimensional hyperplane by a surface normal vector and a point. All lines perpendicular (orthogonal) to that normal vector which pass through the point form the plane. It’s a useful concept and since we already have a word for that kind of structure in 3D space we just use the same term for it in other dimensions permalink fedilink source parent
[–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago Hmmm. I don’t think so but I do think it is incorrectly used here. To me, the 3rd dimensional plane would just be the z axis. If you were talking about the entire 3D shape which they are here, I would just say 3rd dimension. permalink fedilink source parent