#flatland 2012

[asksomespheres]

HI TED-ED SPHERE HI TED-ED SPHERE

[ hi SORRY THIS TOOK 4EVER 4 ME 2 ANSWER i forgooot my bad also first ask in like … a month so thats cool ]

[fishiestickie]

Oh my gosh, someone who's seen Flatland.

Last week my math teacher had a workshop where we watched Flatland together. She'd already shown us all the other Flatland (the one you have to pay to watch), and loves that one.

This Flatland (the one we refer to as "Nightmare Flatland") probably changed us all as people and ascended us to the fourth dimension. We shall never be the same again.

I'd like to ask: what's your favorite quote from the movie? There's a lot of surprisingly good ones

ah, wasnt expecting this ask!!

i've heard a lot of stories of people finding flatland, somehow, through school. most of the time its them watching the film in like 6th grade or whatever. sort of wish i discovered it that way, but nah, i just sorta stumbled across it one day!

i assume you mean flatland 2007, the film... which, in that case, i have a LOT of favorite quotes! couldn't possibly pick just one. (i dont really feel like listing them all though cause then i'd have to THINK about it, gross.../j will prob edit this post later when i do feel like listing them)

and yeah, i've seen the one you have to pay to watch as well! the first and second one. love em both!

flatland did also, indeed, change me as a person, as it did you.

[rjalker]

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbot Abbot, published in 1884, is public domain. That means it has no copyright, and belongs to everyone.

This post will have links to as many versions and adaptations of it as I can find, and will be updated whenver I find new links to add.

Feel free to copy and paste this whole entire post and make it a new post for your own blog too!

None of these links are piracy, because you literally cannot pirate what has no copyright. Anyone who tells you you must pay to read the original Flatland is scamming you.

The only time you should be spending money on Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, is if you find a cool physical copy that you want specifically.

Check the original post before reblogging to look for updates if you are seeing this post days, weeks, or months after I originally post it.

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Visual books:

Public domain:

The Original Novel:

Read online or ownload the original book in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg

Read or download from Standard Ebooks

Read and download from the Internet Archive. This also includes a computer-generated audiobook.

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The 2024 translation:

Read online or download the 2024 translation in multiple formats from the Internet Archive. This also includes a computer-voiced audiobook.

Read the 2024 translation here on tumblr @flatland-a-2024-translation

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The 2024 Summary:

You can read and download this from the Internet Archive in multiple formats, including editable documents. Or read here on tumblr.

You can also buy a physical copy here, or purchase the files from Itch.io.

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Audiobooks:

The original novel:

Listen to the original book on the Internet Archive, read by Ruth Golding

Listen to the original book on the Internet Archive read by David "Grizzly" Smith

The 2024 translation:

Listen and read-along with the lazy audiobook of the 2024 translation on Youtube

(no audiobook available for the summary....yet)

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Free visual media with full stories:

Here’s an animation from 1965. Contains some flashing lights.

Here’s a stop motion film from 1982 in Italian with English subtitles

Here’s an animation from 2006

The 2007 Flatland film by Ladd Ehlinger is free on youtube. Unfortunately Ladd Ehlinger is a virulently racist and misogynistic conservative who thinks feeding school kids is the same thing as slavery. His film is filled with almost constant flashing lights and spinning cameras that cause headaches, motion sickness, migraines, and seizures.

Here is a link to timestamps for these if you still choose to watch it.

The film ignores all of the politics from the original novel because the creator of the film agrees with the bigotry the novel condemned. You are much better off watching another visual adaption or reading the original or translated book.

Especially if you suffer from photosensitivity or motion-sickness, this film will make you want to throw up.

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Shorter visual media:

In-universe

Part 4 of a Korean animation. from 2010. Haven't found parts 1-3 yet.

A short animation from 2020 showing an Equilateral being taken away from his Isosceles parents

Flatland Heist from 2013, A short animation from 2013 where the Narrator and Sphere team up to rob a bank :)

Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions Alternate Timeline (without audio yet) 2024 Here's the version with audio

No Nonbinary Door 2024

A Visit to Lineland 2024

Up, Up, and Away 2024

Meta:

A short TED-Ed summarizing the math parts of Flatland from 2014

Another short animation explaining the math of Flatland from 2012

A long presentation (38 mins) about the math in Flatland. from 2017

Youtube Shorts:

A very short animation about the narrator meeting the Sphere

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Related books by other authors, in publishing order:

Public domain:

An Episode of Flatland: or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension. With Which is Bound Up an Outline of the History of Unæa by Charles Howard Hinton. (1907) Public domain, unlimited reading and downloading. It's terrible. But you can rewrite it to make it not terrible.

The 4D Doodler, by Graph Waldeyer. Also on Youtube as an audiobook.

Other copyright:

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster (1963) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. A short....poem? Nothing to actually do with Flatland.

The Incredible Umbrella by Marvin Kaye (1980) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. I have not read it yet.

Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe, by Dionys Burger. (1983) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. It's racist. Was intended to be a sequel to Flatland, but the author's racist and failed every lesson Flatland tried to teach.

“Message Found in a Copy of Flatland” by Rudy Rucker (1983) free to read online from the author.

The Fourth Dimension, by Rudy Rucker (1984). Can be read for free online from the author. I have not read it yet.

The Planiverse: Computer Contact With a Two-dimensional World by Alexander Keewatin Dewdney (1984) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. Good 2D worldbuilding, nonexistant plot and boring abrupt ending.

Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart (2001) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. it's useless crap that unironically defends the bigotry against Irregulars from the original novel by pretending it's just natural selection that's totally natural and not at all artificialy and violently upheld to uphold the supremacy of the Circles.

Spaceland by Rudy Rucker (2002) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. I have not read it yet.

VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2002) by Steve Tomasula. no copies donated to the internet archive yet. I have not read it yet.

A 2024 Summary of Flatland. Buy a physical copy here. Buy a digital copy here.

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Neopronoun short stories:

The Breaking Point, a short story of a Line and Isosceles in another country of Flatland, attempting to deal with an abusive officer of the military who's invited himself into their home. Almost 4k words.

First Day of School, a young equilateral has zov first day at school, and discovers that the "specimen" they're supposed to be studying is someone zo knows.

Gaining a New Perspective, a short story of the Sphere contemplating everything that's happened after throwing the narrator of Flatland back down to his plane. Almost exactly 5k words.

Other short fiction:

[link me your stories and a short summary to go here!!]

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Please feel free to add more links and I'll add them to this original post.

Here's the first masterpost I made which has fewer links.

[irldenji]

could you please make a few spherius (from the flatland 2007/2012 movies) stamps? thank yous!!!

!!

[litsnobconfessions]

A Year of Animation Day 121-122: Flatland/Sphereland

Date: May 1-2, 2025

Day: 121-122

Content Watched: Flatland

Year: 2007

Rating: not rated

Run Time: 34 minutes

Content Watched: Sphereland

Year: 2012

Rating: not rated

Run Time: 36 minutes

When I was in 8th grade I had to read Flatland in my math class. I didn't like it at the time, but since then, it's gotten endearing. So naturally, when the geometry teacher down the hall from me decided to show it, and the sequel, Sphereland, to her classes, I dropped in during my prep period to watch. I didn't have the opportunity to take notes, so this will be another entry based on memory.

Flatland is another movie that could not be done any other way. Obviously, there's no way to do this movie live action, since the characters are all shapes. But they did an excellent job drawing a world that exists entirely on a flat plane. Basically, imagine something akin to a blueprint... if there were squares and hexagons moving about in it. I like how they wobbled as they moved, as if "walking" and how they would literally spin around, they way we might turn to look over our shoulders. There were some interesting things about the way the houses were built as well. For example, the beds have all these little white squares around them, as if the shapes were under blankets.

But what Flatland really excels at is showing the perspective of the characters in the different dimensions. And while I vaguely remember A. Square's journey to Pointland and Lineland in the book, having a visual really makes it easy to understand. In the movie, it's easy to see how Arthur can drop in and out Lineland, but the lines would only see him as a line, even though he's two dimensional. So when the sphere does this to him, we understand the concept of what's going on, even though we're now essentially seeing the same phenomenon from the lines' point of view. And then, of course, the second half of the movie switches in and out of a 3D space and a 2D space, which is cool just because I don't think I've seen a movie do that before. (And to be fair, what movie would need to?)

This also preps the audience for the appearance of the ovosphere in Sphereland, which always appears as a cross-section because I don't think anyone's yet mastered drawing in 4 dimensions. But the comparison of dimensions interacting comes back in Sphereland, when the sphere is "flipped" in some way by the ovosphere and his directions are reversed (right becomes left and left becomes right). We also see Hex and her companion flip a line, and later, Hex and her companions are flipped by the sphere. Since it's easy to understand the flipping of the one and two dimensional shapes, it puts the more complex understanding of a sphere flipping into perspective. In fact, a couple of the students in the class were compelled enough by the film that they were talking about whether we were three-dimensional or four-dimensional.

As much as I detested reading Flatland in middle school, as an adult, I see its value for teaching about geometry. I found Sphereland particularly interesting because it goes into the way geometry changes on the surface of a sphere (triangles having more than 180 degrees and so forth). It's kind of complicated math (for the layperson, I don't know about the mathematician) and not usually covered in a high school geometry class because teenagers aren't typically doing the type of stuff that requires it. But the movie is 36 minutes long, so it seems like a good way to introduce the concept without overwhelming students.

I did notice some changes from the original book, with the obvious one being gender equality. In the book, all women are lines, and A. Square's grandson is... well, a grandson. In the movie, Hex is a granddaughter, and the women are also shapes. I appreciate the change, though I do want to know how this changes the worldbuilding. In Flatland, each generation is born with an additional side, so Arthur's son was a pentagon and his grandchild is a hexagon, etc. This kind of follows when you have a square reproducing with a line. And don't get me wrong, I appreciate that the women now have equal footing and are shapes like the men, but it begs the question... what if a square reproduces with a pentagon? I mean, what's stopping them from inter-shape marriage? Well, the law, probably. Or is this how irregular shapes are born? Honestly, I feel like there's room for a whole spin-off here, especially considering the story is actually kind of political. It's about tearing down an unjust hierarchy. Of course, I also spent a lot of time trying to figure out how new triangles are born... if the triangles always have squares and the squares have pentagons, and so forth, wouldn't certain shapes have died off by now? I wonder if the book explained that....

Selkies tomorrow!

[sporesgalaxy]

Hey sorry kind of weird ask but could you give a list of media you recommend to people? Or just things you like because your taste has been very similar to mine in the past....... And you do cool stuff about that so it's always double good.

If you want obv, it's just that I've finished a serie (that I also checked out because of some of your posts chdjsk)... Idk... You cool 👍

thanks!!! and youre in luck!! i am extremely forgetful so I literally keep a list of Medias I Like and it's been a while since I tried to think of more stuff to add to it! so here you go!

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medias that tapped directly into my brain:

sci fi

Spy Kids 1 2 & 3

Invader Zim

Portal 1&2

Danny Phantom

Psychonauts

Wander Over Yonder

Mob Psycho 100

Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse

fantasy

Bionicle: The Mask of Light

Shrek & Shrek 2

Spirited Away

Adventure Time

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

The Book of Life

Loki: Agent of Asgard (comic)

Soul Eater (manga & anime)

Madoka Magica

Paranatural (webcomic)

Dungeon Meshi

Nimona

mystery/suspense/spooky

Gravity Falls

Coraline

Paranorman

JJBA part 4 Diamond is Unbreakable

Hannibal (2013)

Smile for Me

Ace Attorney 1 thru 4

Perfect Blue

Chainsaw Man (manga part 1)

Dorohedoro (manga)

REWROTE my brain permanently

Spore

Atlantis the Lost Empire

Sonic Adventure 2

Sharkboy & Lavagirl

Sonic The Hedgehog 1999 OVA

Undertale

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Princess Tutu

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Midnight Gospel

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Good Omens (book & show)

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Trigun

other extremely powerful stuff I can think of

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

The Stanley Parable

Undertale & Deltarune

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Knives Out

Never Satisfied (webcomic)

honorable mentions

Teen Titans (2003)

Kung Fu Panda

Transformers: Prime

The Owl House

Pokemon Sun

Pokemon Legends Arceus

Thor 1, 2, & Ragnarok

Kingmen 1 & 2

this might look weird or lame but HEAR ME OUT

Ben 10 (2005, 2008, 2010, 2012)

Hoodwinked! (2006)

Ninjago

Thor: Tales of Asgard

Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!

Dan Vs.

Barbie: Life in the Dream House

Beetlejuice broadway musical

Half Life VR but the AI is Self Aware

has issues but HILARIOUS to enjoy with gay friends

Ouran High School Host Club

Code Geass

Bayonetta 1 & 2

[mywifeleftme]

169: The Flatlanders // The Odessa Tapes

The Odessa Tapes The Flatlanders 2012, New West

A Cliff’s/Cole’s/Spark’s Notes on the Flatlanders: Texan trio of songwriter’s songwriters (Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, and a nascent Joe Ely) form combo, head to Nashville to record impossibly sublime album (All American Music) in November 1972 that is (barely) released on 8-track cassette after would-be single “Dallas” flops. The album is forgotten, the band splits, its three core members build respectable careers. As the Americana scene they’d somewhat presaged takes shape, the Nashville recordings are sporadically re-released (most notably on Rounder’s More a Legend Than a Band) and the Flatlanders retrospectively find themselves one of the most critically celebrated country acts of their era.

The Odessa Tapes are an even more forgotten batch of recordings than those Nashville sessions, cut in January of the same year as a demo for Plantation Records. The tapes were rediscovered in the 2000s and released by New West in 2012 and, despite the years of neglect, they sound astonishing—to the point you could make a case that they represent the band’s definitive statement. The material is largely the same as that found on the later sessions, though four songs appear here for the first time (“Number Sixteen,” “Shadow of the Moon,” “I Think Too Much of You,” “Story of You,” all superb). These renditions have a honeyed warmth unto themselves, like the feeling in your muscles when you sink into a good chair. All American Music was marketed as Jimmy Dale Gilmore & The Flatlanders, and to my ear at least it’s mixed and arranged to subtly emphasize him as ‘the star.’ Here, their trademark harmonies sound closer and more balanced, the pace a tad mellower, the guitars absent the Nashville sessions’ very slight commercial sheen. Reasonable people can differ as to whether All American Music’s accoutrements (e.g. Steve Wesson’s musical saw) add welcome variety to these simple, elegant songs, which admittedly are all pretty similar in structure, but you can’t go wrong with either set.

Speaking of structure, it occurs to me I’ve structured this review badly, gotten a little deep into the minutiae of comparing versions of songs there’s a good chance you’ve never heard before. So, let’s say this of the Flatlanders: they harkened back to pre-1950s country and bluegrass, had those singers been raised Buddhist rather than Baptist. In place of Christian melodrama (sin, shame, redemption), their songs have a wry philosophical resignation, gazing through the big Texas Panhandle sky over the fence line at the turning wheel of dharma. With the exception of the full-on spiritualism of “Bhagavan Decreed” (an extraordinarily poetic set of lyrics by Austin musician Ed Vizard), they don’t front with the cosmic stuff: it’s on your tenth or hundredth listen to these sentimental, homespun songs of steadfastness and fidelity that lines like “the universal law needs no revision” and “this world’s just not real to me” and “I guess I should be flyin’ ‘cause it’s killin’ me to run” start clicking together.

I’m sure I have a hundred top ten albums at this point. But if one of those sickos with a desert island / turntable situation put a cruise missile to my head, it’d be hard to imagine going a lifetime without hearing the Flatlanders again. And if I had to pick just one of theirs, it’d be The Odessa Tapes.

169/365

[brookstonalmanac]

Beer Events 4.19

Events

Stephen Weber bought the Waukesha Brewery (Wisconsin; 1869)

Lager 1st brewed in England (by William Youngers & Co.; 1879)

Leopold Schmidt married Johanna Steiner (1879)

Moses Bensinger patented a Valve for Beer Coolers (1892)

Edouard Thys patented a Hop Picking Machine (1938)

Lone Star Beer 1st for sale (1940)

James Kelley patented a Combination Cooling Cradle and Drip Tray for Keg Type Containers (1966)

Harold Zastrow patented a Beer Keg Container (1966)

Labatt Brewing patented a process for Rapid Cooling (1994)

Supreme Court struck down 1935 law prohibiting brewers from stating alcohol content on label (1995)

Pink Boots Society's 1st meeting (2008)

Krones patented an Apparatus and Method for Stripping Wort (2012)

Stone released Ruination Double IPA 2.0 (2015)

Brewery Openings

Cherokee Brewing (Georgia; 1996)

Flatlanders Brewing (Illinois; 1996)

Kawartha Lakes Brewing (Canada; 1996)

[oswednesday]

the thing about gravity falls is while bill is living the dark souls of flatlands and stan is living fez 2012

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Erwin Olaf

Erwin Olaf Springveld (2 de julho de 1959 - 20 de setembro de 2023), conhecido profissionalmente como Erwin Olaf , foi um fotógrafo holandês de Hilversum . A revista Time descreveu seu trabalho como abrangendo "os mundos da fotografia comercial, artística e de moda ao mesmo tempo". 

Biografia

Erwin Olaf Springveld nasceu em 2 de julho de 1959 em Hilversum , Holanda.

Olaf era mais famoso por seu trabalho comercial e pessoal. Ele foi contratado para fotografar campanhas publicitárias para grandes empresas internacionais, como Levi's , Microsoft e Nokia . Algumas de suas séries fotográficas mais famosas incluem "Grief", "Rain" e "Royal Blood". Nunca sendo alguém que se esquivava da controvérsia, o trabalho de Olaf era frequentemente ousado e provocativo. No entanto, com humor, uma de suas primeiras fotografias foi expulsa de uma exposição por não conter nudez. 

Seu trabalho recebeu muitos prêmios e foi exibido em todo o mundo. 

Olaf estudou jornalismo na Escola de Jornalismo de Utrecht . Seu trabalho foi exibido em galerias e museus internacionais, por exemplo, Wagner + Partner, Berlim; Flatland Gallery, Amsterdã; Hamiltons Gallery, Londres; Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris ; Gallery Espacio Minimo, Madri; e muitos outros.

Olaf desenhou as moedas de euro holandesas de 2014 com o retrato do rei Willem-Alexander . Em 2018, ele foi responsável pelos retratos oficiais da família real holandesa. 

Ele era um defensor dos direitos dos homossexuais . Em 2012, ele organizou um "beijo na entrada" que teve cerca de cem participantes depois que o dono de uma lanchonete comentou sobre Olaf beijando seu namorado. 

Olaf morreu em 20 de setembro de 2023, aos 64 anos, como resultado de um enfisema de longa duração , semanas após receber um transplante de pulmão . Olaf foi diagnosticado com enfisema pela primeira vez em 1996. Ele previu o que a doença faria com ele no terceiro painel de sua série de autorretratos de 2009, Eu desejo, eu sou, eu serei . O Longfonds  [ nl ] , a organização holandesa sem fins lucrativos para pacientes pulmonares, considerou muito corajoso que ele tivesse sido tão aberto sobre sua doença. 

Erwin Olaf, cum (self portrait), 1985

[asksomespheres]

ted-ed sphere you are so aweosome praying emoji. I'm sorry. does a sick backflip and runs away crying

[ i actually chuckled making this ]

[fishiestickie]

drawing other peoples characters completely unprompted just for the sake of showing them is fun...

anyway hey @voidperson333, i thought your shapes were cool so i drew some of them

i liek shapes

I HOPE YOU LIKE THE ARTS VOID!!!!!!!1!! OKAY BYE BYE

[rjalker]

Flatland movies / animations I found on youtube

1965, animation: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBbZmwROv84"

1982, stop motion animation: (in Italian, English transcript here): "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNDhjYQKWt4"

2006, animation: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZtua8XvcCM"

2007, animation and CGI, has lots of flashing lights in the middle and end unfortunately: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avMX-Zft7K4"

2012(?): Extremely fast animations, do not watch if you are sensitive to flashing lights unless you can find a way to slow it down: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxOZZWrkCRM"

2020: (A short clip of an isosceles family having their equillateral child taken away): "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpqmoOqLhmw"

[janusfranc15]

Gee, I do love how a 2012 show (Gravity Falls) has increased the visibility of an 1884 Satirical Novel criticizing Victorian Hierarchical structures and Dimensions. (Non Victorian) (Flatland)!

(He’s looking at his Mum and Dad btw)

[thinkingimages]

Adam Jeppesen, XX arcticocean – Flatlands Camp Project, 2012

[eopederson]

Vistas de la meseta I - cerca de Hornillos, Burgos, Castilla y Léon, 2011.

The first in an occasional series of landscape shots taken on Spain’s immense  highland flatlands - the plains where the rain mostly does not fall. Many pilgrims who walk the Camino Francés, the most popular route toward Santiago de Compostela, dread or frequently avoid it by riding a train or bus. The section of the camino which crosses the meseta between the lovely cities of Burgos and Léon is my favorite part of the route with vast landscapes, open skies, winds and long distances. This collection will include shots from my walks in 1998, 2001, 2011, and 2012.