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Aside from Hyperspace as a plot device for faster than light space travel, there are only a few examples of film or television productions that have explored the possible consequences of human access to a fourth dimension. In the 1959 science fiction film 4D Man a scientist accessed the fourth dimension and gained the ability to move through ...
Aircraft, science fiction, space non fiction, figures, vehicles, and watercraft. Now the most prolific [11] small scale (i.e. less than 1:35) for plastic injection armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) models, and also plastic model figurines and scale model vehicles and aircraft by companies such as Airfix. 1:65: 4.689 mm Ships, die-cast cars ...
The real aircraft used to portray the MiG-28 was a Northrop F-5. [18] Full-scale MiG-31 Firefox model used in the film Firefox parked at Van Nuys Airport, California in May 1982. MiG-31 Firefox: a fictional aircraft that appeared in Craig Thomas's novels Firefox and Firefox Down, as well as the 1982 film by the same name starring Clint Eastwood.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", [1] the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
Perhaps the most common use of the concept of a parallel universe in science fiction is the concept of hyperspace. Used in science fiction, the concept of "hyperspace" often refers to a parallel universe that can be used as a faster-than-light shortcut for interstellar travel. Rationales for this form of hyperspace vary from work to work, but ...
A scale model of the Tower of London. This model can be found inside the tower. A scale model of a hydropower turbine. A scale model is a physical model that is geometrically similar to an object (known as the prototype). Scale models are generally smaller than large prototypes such as vehicles, buildings, or people; but may be larger than ...
Aside from the Orthographic, six standard principal views (Front; Right Side; Left Side; Top; Bottom; Rear), descriptive geometry strives to yield four basic solution views: the true length of a line (i.e., full size, not foreshortened), the point view (end view) of a line, the true shape of a plane (i.e., full size to scale, or not ...
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