Thomasos is known for her abstract paintings in which images of housing blocks, tiered parking garages, warehouses, scaffolding and abstract passages occupied an expanding,
hyperbolic space.
Hyperbolic space is a Pringle - like alternative to flat, Euclidean geometry where the normal rules don't apply: angles of a triangle add up to less than 180 degrees and Euclid's parallel postulate, governing the properties of parallel lines, breaks down.
In
hyperbolic space, more than one parallel line runs through that external point; in fact, an infinite number of them do.
Hyperbolic space is an unimaginable concept, unless you're a Latvian mathematician who's handy with needle and yarn.
«If you are a creature living on this plane, let's say an ant, it's still the same
hyperbolic space.
Hyperbolic space is a non-Euclidean geometic form, and it's a hard thing to get one's head around.
For years, researchers thought it was impossible to create a physical model of
hyperbolic space, but Daina Taimina and her crochet hook proved them wrong.
Not exact matches
If this carefully coordinated
space «ballet» works, however, Musk's old car will be running laps between the sun and Mars in what's called a
hyperbolic orbit.
The FAA permit mentions a «
hyperbolic orbit,» the eccentric path Musk hopes his car takes through
space.
I should be very willing to believe that each permanent
space is either uniformly elliptic or uniformly
hyperbolic, if any observations are more simply explained by such a hypothesis.
«A hundred years ago, the mathematician David Hilbert proved a theorem that it is impossible to represent the
hyperbolic plane in three - dimensional
space analytically,» he says.»
Traveling at high speed and on a
hyperbolic trajectory, the object is obviously not from our solar system; it's from interstellar
space.
Superimposed skyscrapers and steel structures evoke
hyperbolic fantasies of reimagined
spaces, illuminating the charm of a utopic, idealized, urban wilderness.
With
hyperbolic, even slapstick emphasis that exceeds the boundaries of common sense and objective perception, his paintings push us to the edge of meaning, to a dramatic
space where reality and caricature are indiscernible.
Spanning three galleries in New York (Lehmann Maupin's two
spaces and Sonnabend), the pictures were best experienced all in one day to gorge on the
hyperbolic phrases as a whole.