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	Alexander Dewdney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Keewatin Dewdney (born August 5, 1941 in London, Ontario) is a Muslim Canadian mathematician, computer scientist and philosopher who has written a number of books on the future and implications of modern computing.
		He has developed hypotheses which sharply disagree with the official version of the events surrounding the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks (see external links below).
		The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World (1984).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A._K._Dewdney (304 words)

	Flatlanders and The Planiverse
		It?s a morality play as well as a treatise about how physics, biology, and society could work when one of our most common assumptions (a third dimension) is removed.
		One could simulate the "Planiverse" in eToys but most of the functionality of the Morphs would not help.
		"Planiverse" requires gravity while Abbot's "Flatland" resembles a world seen in a microscope slide.
	www.squeakland.org /pipermail/squeakland/2003-April/001366.html (724 words)

	Fiction from the Non-fiction Aisle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The 2-D equivalent of the printing press is explained, as well as a form of writing.
		The pictures, though crude at times, are very interesting and help to bring alive the idea of the Planiverse.
		When you look at the pictures of the creatures of Dewdney’s Planiverse, it is very tempting to think that each of that world’s inhabitants sees what we see.
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	Alexander Dewdney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Alexander Keewatin Dewdney is a Canadian computer scientist and philosopher who has written a number of books on the future and implications of modern computing.
		He has also written one work of fiction The Planiverse.
		He appears not to accept the official conspiracy theory for September Eleventh.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/a/al/alexander_dewdney.html (132 words)

	A. K. Dewdney
		The Planiverse is partly a work of fiction, written in the first person by Dewdney.
		The other part of The Planiverse is a detailed exploration of how this variety of two-dimensional world would work.
		The Planiverse reminds me a lot of Astro Teller's later novel Exegesis, which is about a nascent artificial intelligence, and which has a similar bittersweet ending.
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		And I still remember the ending as grippingly and eerily numinous, as we realize how closely the Planiverse and our Universe are connected, and how limited we are in comparison to the Eternal.
		The clues are to be found in the many Arabic words in the language of the Planiverse and in the fact that Yendred's quest ends in a shrine that is a square (the 2-dimensional equivalent of the cubic shrine - the Kaaba - that is at the centre of Islam).
		As Yendred is Dewdney spelt backwards (with Alice's speech defect which causes her to confuse W and R), one may deduce that the author is himself a Sufi seeker.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0671463624 (1004 words)

	Sensei's Library: Planiverse
		A.K. Dewdney's masterwork The Planiverse follows the adventures of one Yendred, a denizen of the 2-dimensional world Arde.
		More than just a response to Edwin Abbott's Flatland, it attempts to explore every aspect of 2-dimensional life (arranged vertically, as opposed to Abbott's horizontal plane).
		Planiverse last edited by Scartol on June 27, 2003 - 03:39
	senseis.xmp.net /?Planiverse (357 words)

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		These new creatures, called Ardeans, had lives of their own and were infinitely more complicated than any- thing the students had ever programmed.
		There are no clues whatsoever in The Planiverse where reality leaves off and sci- ence fiction begins.
		The body of The Planiverse is a tale of Yendred, a youthful Ardean, and his quest for enlightenment, but there are small boxed sections throughout the text de- scribing particular elements of Ardean civilization, from a two-dimensional print- ing press to a two-dimensional NAND gate, in detail.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_104/TECH_V104_S0424_P013.txt (1726 words)

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	Sensei's Library: Alak
		Alak was described as go in 1D, but that doesn't work as a serious game.
		jsha: I haven't read the original source, but from the blurb in Planiverse it sounds like filling the last liberty of your own chain is not like making two eyes.
		IIf you fill the last liberty of your own chain, you are alive until you capture one of the adjacent (enemy) groups.
	senseis.xmp.net /?Alak (536 words)

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		The Planiverse's reality is that real, and supported by that much scientific and mathematical principle- Dewdney has done his research, to bring us one of the most delightful what-ifs I've found.
		The Planiverse is a classic book about life in a two-dimensional universe.
		A.K. Dewdney is a well-known author, and this is a well-known book, which is now brought back into print in a revised and updated edition.
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	cloudmonkey: dreams & ideas
		But where Abbott uses the two-dimensional inhabitants of his world to introduce concepts of the fourth dimension (and incidentally to satirize Victorian Society), Dewdney concentrates on the implications of two-dimensionality on his world and its inhabitants.
		The physics of the Planiverse, the geography and ecology of Arde, and the architecture, biology, and sociology of the Ardeans are all worked out in great detail.
		Just as our Earth is a mass of rock pulled into a sphere by gravity, so Arde is a mass of rock pulled into a circle.
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	Flatlanders and The Planiverse
		Sebastian, I read "The Planiverse" when I attended university (UC Irvine)… had found it in our university library.
		;-) ] • One could simulate the "Planiverse" in eToys but most of the functionality of the Morphs would not help.
		• "Planiverse" requires gravity while Abbot's "Flatland" resembles a world seen in a microscope slide.
	www.squeakland.org /pipermail/squeakland/2003-February/000570.html (752 words)

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		Bruce Toback of OPT Products Technology Inc. reports that A.K. Dewdney's The Planiverse has been reprinted by Copernicus Books.
		Originally written in 1984, The Planiverse is an account of computer contact with a 2-dimensional universe, a college term project in 2D simulation gone awry.
		Dewdney, who wrote Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" column for a while, weaves a delightful story around the mathematics and science of a two-dimensional Universe.
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		The Planiverse: Computer Contact With a Two-Dimensional World Book Description
		The year is 1981, and in the computer lab of a large university a group of graduate students and their professor are hard at work on their mainframe, graphically modeling an imaginary two-dimensional world.
		If any of these are things that you want to do, then you need to Get A Free Hive Wiki.
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		This is a wonderful book about a hypothetical 2-dimensional universe.
		"The Planiverse" has a fun story-line with a 2-dimensional protagonist.
		It goes way beyond Cantor's levels of infinity, which is where most treatments of infinity stop.
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		This brilliant story seems so real that the author heard from many readers asking for technical details of the computer settings that gave access to the Planiverse.
		The secret is that beneath the two-dimensional surface of the story there is hidden a Sufi allegory, hinted at by the many Arabic words in the language of the flat world.
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		The latter is a very good alternative Go variant, giving a tactical goal that can be used to increase the drama and interest in the opening stage, as well as a "cold" post-endgame stage, adding extra layers to Go.
		A. Dewdney proposed this idea in his book The Planiverse, which is a science fiction book about a two-dimensional universe.
		Black and White alternate in placing stones on a line of n cells.
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	the Planiverse: computer contact with a two-dimensional world by Springer
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