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Euclidean World vs. Actual World

April 5, 2022From the book Math Games with Bad Drawings

In Euclid's world, clouds are spheres, mountains are cones and trees are triangles. In the actual world, they're all fractals.

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[EUCLIDEAN WORLD: a drawing with spherical clouds, conical mountains, triangular trees] [ACTUAL WORLD: a photo of a mountain landscape with fractal clouds, fractal mountains, fractal trees]

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-04-05-euclidean-world-vs-actual-world/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Geometry › FractalsGeometry › Euclidean Geometry
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