On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:29:01 +0200, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

> Nekar Xenos <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> If you take a horzontal 2d slice of a human being near the center of the
>> torso, you will get 3 objects: 2 almost circular objects for the arms  
>> and
>> one ovalish shape for the torso. So if a 2d world could coincide with a  
>> 3d
>> world, a 2d being on that plane would see 3 objects and could not  
>> imagine
>> that it could be one object.
>
>> If we step it all up one dimension, you could have a 3-dimensional slice
>> of 4-dimensional object that would seem to be more than one 3d object to
>> us 3-dimensional beings.
>
> It depends on whether you are seeing a slice or a projection.
>

Yes. In this case it is a slice.


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-Nekar Xenos-

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