Sentence examples of "flatland" in English

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A water strider's brain doesn't need 3D software at all, since it lives on the surface of the pond in an Edwin Abbott flatland. Мозгу водомерки совсем не нужна трехмерность, ведь она живёт на поверхности пруда, во флатландии, как в одноимённом романе Эдвина Эбботта.
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world. Причина, по которой мы одушевляем такие вещи, как автомобиль и компьютер, состоит в том, что, как и обезьяны, живущие в мире деревьев, и кроты, живущие в подземном мире, и водомерки, живущие в двухмерном мире сил поверхностного натяжения - мы живём в социальной среде.
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