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I can't read this without hearing that voice-cracking cadence in my head
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if we're interpreting the stripes on striped clothes as 3D objects, how do you know they represent cylinders? >

I mean, we didn't know the shape of their cross-section for certain until polka dot shirts. It's only now that we're able to tell that they are cylinders. I'm rather curious to know the cross-section of plaid, but that technology is probably a long way off yet. >

I think it's pretty obvious that plaid is a four-dimensional tesseract. >

Guys, who invited the mathematicians? >

Someone called their number. >

Oh yeah, well tell math that they need to solve their own problems >

I'd be interested to see if the dots on the front and back of the shirt line up. >

If the dots are true circles (and if the stripe is a cylinder), then the stripe is perpendicular to the plane of the shirt.  Therefore the front and back dots would line up.
However, if the dots are ellipses, that means the stripe intersects the plane of the shirt at a non-perpendicular angle.  So the dots on the back would not necessarily line up with the front.
Simples. >

Are we positive a striped shirts stripes aren’t cylindrical in the 3rd dimension? >

Topologically* the entire shirt has more in common with a triple torus. >

I’d say the shirt’s topography depends on when it was last ironed >

Unless a new hole is torn in the shirt, or material is added, it’s topology hasn’t changed, no matter how wrinkled or folded it is >

It was a topology/topography joke, as the comment above said "topographically." >

I just find it funny that you're talking about the topology and topography of tops. >

Laughing at the top dog of top topology? 
That really tops it all >

You want your shirt with vertical or horizontal stripes?  Z axis, please. >

Electrical engineers would call this "radially striped". >

a CG artist would say "along normals" >

A web developer would say, fuck that shit. >

And then copy paste CSS from stackoverflow that kind of does the right thing in 2 out of 3 major browsers. >

Did I hire you on Upwork? >

Damn! Now I have to study topology to understand clothes.
Speaking about which: do you know how many holes a standard t-shirt has? >

Fouuur? >

Noooope. 3.
If you sew 3 holes shut, nothing can pass through the shirt anymore so there is no hole anymore.
Because 2 "apparent holes" are in fact the same hole. Like in a hollow cylinder, which topologically speaking is a torus, there is only 1 hole. >

I'm definitely no expert here but by that logic wouldn't there only be 2 holes? Top and bottom is one and sleeves make up the second. 
Also, it seems like this only works conceptually because the act of sewing would have to be done 4 times not three? 
Unless you are saying that by sewing all but one opening shut it is no longer a hole, but that's not really how we define holes ex. a hole in the ground. >

No if you sew 3 "openings" shut, nothing can pass THROUGH anymore. If you sew one sleeve and let's say the collar, something can pass through from the bottom and out through the other sleeve. >

Yes and then it can be flattened into a plane >

True because if a plane has a hole, it crashes xD >

considering the All-American made it back to base pretty much without a tail i'd say that's cap >

This is a great and actually fits the vibe of a shower thought. >

No one will see this, or else won't believe it or care, but I actually did think this one up in the shower >

I see it. And I believe you.  
But I'm very curious why you're wearing polka dots in the shower. >

There are dozens of us. DOZENS. >

Never nudes! >

The thing about this sub is that I keep think youse'll run out. Then this. >

Youse guys never run out. Too many yoots. >

redneck >

They must be pointing 100% against you for you to see the perfect circle.  
Against or torwards. >

Anything other than perfect perpendicularity would result in stripes, no? >

Depends on if you see the shirt as a 2D slice or as an image projection. In the slice case you'd see an oval, but indeed in the projection case you'd see lines. I think :) >

This type of showerthought is literally why I visit this sub.  I like how you think OP. >

Hey, cheers >

Well I hate it.  hate it with a passion.  You may have ruined polka-dots forever for me.
Well done! >

This thought made my brain sprinkle a bit of dopamine on my day. >

Ok this is definitely the best shower thought this sub has ever seen >

How to tell your friend is high without him telling you that he’s high >

Technically speaking, polka dots extend into the fourth dimension, as well.
If you were to plot the course of a two-dimensional polka dot through both three-dimensional space and time, you'd end up with a shape that resembled – assuming enough resolution – a really long cylinder with a terminal addiction to caffeine. >

This is my favorite shower thought so far!  I actually gasped when I read it, "THAT'S TRUE!" >

Aw shit my precious gems just got stolen out of my 2 dimensional safe! >

Don't worry, I drew a sketch of the thief: ________ >

This is exactly the idea of single electron theory. Which, ofcourses is false, but interesting >

This is my favorite post I’ve seen on this app 💜🙂 I don’t know why, but all the comments made me so happy >

Dude. This is some quality shower thought. Haven’t seen good thoughts like this in a long time >

The best time to wear a stripped sweater, is all the time. One with a collar, turtleneck, that’s the kind.