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zenorogue
·há 8 meses·discuss
For an analogy: an Abelian group is a structure in which four axioms hold. A non-Abelian group is a structure in which three of these axioms hold, and the fourth does not. It is not a structure in which some random proper subset of axioms holds, because such a notion would be useless. While structures where specific subsets of axioms hold (non-Abelian groups, semigroups, monoids, etc.) are useful.
zenorogue
·há 8 meses·discuss
The hyperbolic paraboloid is not an isometric embedding of the hyperbolic plane H2 in Euclidean space E3, because it does not have constant negative Gaussian curvature.

In general it is impossible to have an isometric embedding of H2 in E3, although it is possible to have isometric embeddings of fragments of H2.
zenorogue
·há 8 meses·discuss
No, you are confusing geometry and topology here. Topology does not change when you stretch the space but changes when you cut/glue it. Geometry does not change when you cut/glue but changes when you stretch. So portals change the topology but the geometry is Euclidean (you get a Euclidean manifold). This are the meanings used by mathematicians working in these areas.

(The original meaning is of course about breaking 5th postulate while all the others hold, showing that it was possible was a celebrated result in mathematics, while it is trivial to break the postulates in some arbitrary way.)
zenorogue
·há 8 meses·discuss
Yeah, Jeff calls it "non-Cartesian". He changes the topology but the geometry is Euclidean. There are also lots of roguelikes doing other experiments with topology, tilings, dimensions (Verdagon 7DRLs, geometry episode of Roguelike Radio, etc.)
zenorogue
·há 8 meses·discuss
AppStore only accepts games compiled in a new version of XCode, and I have only a very old Mac on which it does not seem possible to install such a new version.
zenorogue
·há 8 meses·discuss
Google Play is not very friendly to small developers who do not want to share their home address (not their fault, it is some recently introduced EU law), but the Android version can be downloaded from itch.io