Monday, March 16, 2009

Shorter version

Each person is a dot in a box. People that are really, fundamentally similar are close together and people that are different are far away. Similarities are measured in dozens of different ways. What pattern do the dots make?


[this is a 3-dimensional projection of the n-cube, if you care]

1 comment:

Peg Lewis said...

Clusters of points that slowly rotate around their center of mass, the clusters themselves slowly rotating around their common center of mass. The clusters implode: the tendency of each point is to drift toward the center of the cluster, with new points created at the periphery. The clusters themselves tend to drift toward their center of mass, also, and are replaced by very marginal dots that appear at the edges (then begin their drift toward the center).