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@yrriban

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internet skeleton @yrriban5/22/2023, 2:48 PM

erysdren @erysdren

it's suzy @trashbang5/22/2023, 12:26 PM

Spent far too long today trying to fill an 11-sided hole using only corner-to-corner quadrilaterals (id Tech 4 patch geometry, don't ask) and got that familiar uneasy feeling of "there is a mathematical proof somewhere out there that could've told you this was futile".

The problem with making shapes all day is that you start to pride yourself on your ability to make any shape, forgetting that there are in fact Forbidden Shapes that cannot be.

internet skeleton @yrriban5/22/2023, 2:48 PM

nerd: sniped

for a moment i also thought this might be possible, but then i woke up slightly and i'm pretty sure it's not. 11-sided polygons have a total interior angle sum of (11-2)*180=1620 degrees, and quadrilaterals have an interior angle sum on 360 degrees, so there's no way to divide the interior angles evenly. both those numbers can be derived in a variety of ways but i like that they're a consequence of ear cutting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_ears_theorem

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erysdren @erysdren5/22/2023, 12:58 PM

the woes of level design

Daniel Gibson @danielg5/22/2023, 2:12 PM

like a quadrilateral cowgirl

jeroknite @jeroknite5/22/2023, 4:34 PM

I think it's ok to make forbidden shapes, you should get to

Ohhhhh... THAT Raptor!@Raptor5/22/2023, 10:20 PM

Honestly, just for having a solid basis for that, I wish I had gone further with maths; never did topology stuffs, no manifolds, nothin'. And with the mix of what I learned and have forgotten from calc, DiffEq, and CS, I'd probably just end up in confusing trouble.

But also you're no doubt right about that one. I swear, one of the more frustrating parts of maths was when they have you prove that there are true things that can never be proven.

Just a real jerk move for the universe.