Torus Explained by courtney.gibbons on February 23, 2009 at 8:29 am Chapter: comics Good luck with the kids these days, though. I don’t trust a generation that hasn’t played old school PacMan. └ Tags: topology
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Pac Man wasn’t a torus, it was a bounded cylinder segment. You could tunnel from side to side, but not top to bottom. Asteroids was a torus, broken only by the saucers which would appear and disappear from the sides.
Brilliant!
Excellent comic. Hate to spam, but I can’t help it in this case. I wrote a version of Nibbles that does exactly what you’ve just done…
http://antimatroid.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/ouroboros-reinventing-nibbles/
hahahahahaha! I actually once explained the torus in class using pacman! Then someone told me you couldn’t go from top to bottom. I thought you could.
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fucking awesome.
Populous 3 is a torus pretending to be a sphere. It really messed with my mind.