Plasmon comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 9 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Plasmon 25 September 2011 08:20:06AM 7 points [-]

You may also be interested in Uniform tilings in the hyperbolic plane. In this non-euclidean plane, regular pentagon tiling is possible, and, using some mapping to Euclidean space, aesthetically pleasing pictures may be produced.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 25 September 2011 03:31:13PM 6 points [-]

So we may presume the hallway in question had a vaulted ceiling.

Comment author: bogdanb 15 October 2011 01:06:32PM 4 points [-]

Or that Hogwarts is doing funny things with space, which we know it does regularly.