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5 Sep 2024 05:24:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Silly portal question  
From: Warp
Date: 15 Sep 2009 18:24:08
Message: <4ab01408@news.povray.org>
Reactor <rea### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Assuming new portal formation is instantaneous and doesn't close the other
> portal, what would happen if you came across this setup, and suddenly launched
> the other portal onto a wall?  That is, assuming that the steel beam comes out,
> what shape would it be?

  IIRC the game engine in Portal ejects the object from the portal if it's
half-way through in this situation. Probably to avoid the dilemma of what
would happen if it didn't.

  And btw, the situation number 3 cannot happen because the beam would
simply collide with itself.

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                                                          - Warp


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