Quote: ian_w @ September 5 2008, 4:39 PM BSTI really like that analogy, really nice! Is it your own?
I borrowed from an old 70s experiment where they created a 2-d world with animals, houses, people. And there was an old turn-of-century novel about a 2-d world of circles visited by a 3-d sphere. It tries to convince them it's 3-d but they only see the sphere as a 2-d circle like themselves. One of the circles breaks out with the sphere into the 3-d world and sees the true nature of its universe and its confines. I transferred the idea over to a painting for some pieces I incorporated into a novel. But the analogy about wind and gravity as having effects from outside a universe's dimensions I bolted in myself.
