"Hyperbolic Space for Tourists" by Viktor Blåsjö
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We discuss how a creature accustomed to Euclidean space would fare in a world of hyperbolic or spherical geometry, and conversely. Various optical illusions and counterintuitive experiences arise, which can be explicated mathematically using plane models of these geometries.

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10.5642/jhummath.201302.06

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© Viktor Blåsjö

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