Message #1079

From: Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Re: Recommended TV: new Futurama
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:44:00 -0700

OK, that’s just too much of a coincidence! I suspect that one of our
members is either Matt Groening or David X. Cohen and was inspired by
our discussions regarding fractal cubes a couple of months ago. If so,
please expose yourself so that we can worship you properly!

It’s interesting to see how they solved the intersection problems by
expanding the puzzle prior to twisting. I also think it was funny that
the moves it chose were very inefficient for the purpose of making
Hermes’ cubicle accessible. That makes sense because you wouldn’t expect
the Central Bureaucracy to be very efficient at all.

Thanks for finding and sharing the exact clip, Andy!
-Melinda

Andrew James Gould wrote:
> I found the specific scene online: http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=342436&title=central-bureaucracy . It does have some analogies to a 3^6 magic cube…the initial four twists being n-1 dimensional faces, and the last three are 2-d twists. Like you said (I think), it’s not completely analogous to a 3^6 magic cube…whether you use the n-1 face definition of a twist or mine. i.e. some n-1 faces can’t be twisted certain ways, and the 9x1x1 sections of cubicles can’t be twisted…unless they made a lot more space. Nonetheless, very funny and interesting to watch.
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> Twist and shout,
> Andy
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