#i picture things and especially people as kind of. a floating 3D cloud of single points of various colours

[hermitcraftheadcanons]

Imagine a coordinate plane. There is a point a little way up the Y-axis, and that point corresponds to a player. If you were to rotate it 180 degrees around the origin, well first of all you would have effectively mirrored it across the X-axis, and secondly you would be able to potentially find many strange things, including hels counterparts. There's no reason that you can't rotate by a different amount, though; Minecraft Alex is a 60 degree rotation from Minecraft Steve and they get along just fine.

NPC Grian is a -90 degree rotation from regular Grian. This is effectively the same as a 270 degree rotation, but nothing ever lists it as a 270 degree rotation, only ever as a -90 degree rotation. This is strange, as nothing else is consistently listed as a negative number of degrees.

There are many things, not just hels, that lurk at 180 degrees. EX is not one of them. They are only a 140 degree rotation from regular xisuma. Interestingly, if you rotate by 140 degrees twice you end up closer to the original point than where you only rotate by 140 degrees once. Rotating by 140 and then 180 brings you even closer to a full 360 degree rotation, but still not quite.

If you make Rendog the initial point, and then draw a circle made of every point you could possibly get by rotating the initial point around the origin, not every point would correspond to a someone or something that exists, as the number of points is infinite. But if you limit it to rotations by whole numbers of degrees, all of those points DO correspond to someones and somethings that exist.

The number of degrees you have to rotate to get from Joe to the beetlejhost is an irrational number.

Going back to a previous section, rotating by 140 degrees 9 times is effectively the same as rotating 180 degrees. And then if you rotate another 180 degrees from there? Well, you'd be right back at the initial point.

This. This is speaking my language. Having just read all of this twice I fully could not tell you what it says but it makes more sense to me than anything else. Thank you very much, and also I raise you: Zedaph is what happens when you take Grian and rotate him 40 degrees from the -x/y plane into the x/y plane, then +21 degrees out of the 2D plane in the +z direction. Zedaph is aware of this but doesn't have the words to explain it. Grian read it in some player code once but has no idea what it means. They will never have a long enough conversation about it to figure it out.

~ Mod Shade

#hermitcraft #mod shade #turning this over and over and over in my brain #this is literally how most thoughts in my brain work #i picture things and especially people as kind of. a floating 3D cloud of single points of various colours #idk why #but categorizing things like this feels so right #thank you anon very cool