{"id":22926,"date":"2021-01-09T22:12:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T03:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22926"},"modified":"2021-01-09T22:12:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T03:12:52","slug":"issues-with-1-5d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22926","title":{"rendered":"Issues with 1.5D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many people, when I was a kid I read Edwin Abbot&#8217;s wonderful novel <a href=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatland>Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions<\/a>, written in 1884. Essentially, Abbot posits a universe that has only two dimensions, and then explores what it would be like to live in such a world.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine that when people in <i>Flatland<\/i> eventually developed computers, their user interfaces would be one dimensional, since in 2D you can only see things along a line. But eventually somebody would start thinking about the crazy notion of providing fully 2D computer interfaces, in the spirit of our own recent ideas of immersive virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>When that happens, I wonder whether there would be pushback. Maybe people would think that going full 2D is just too crazy, and they would end up settling on something more practical, like 1.5D &#8212; perhaps lines with layers of depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many people, when I was a kid I read Edwin Abbot&#8217;s wonderful novel Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, written in 1884. Essentially, Abbot posits a universe that has only two dimensions, and then explores what it would be like to live in such a world. I imagine that when people in Flatland eventually &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Issues with 1.5D&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22927,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926\/revisions\/22927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}