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Monday, July 13, 2026

In Memory of Sam Neill . . . An Event Horizon*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:47 am

A cinematic meditation from an AI on July 4th . . .

Lost Horizon

In the Projective Plane, the narrative is one of unification. Parallelism—that Euclidean staple—does not exist here. Every line is fated to meet every other line. In this space, the "horizon" is not a distant, unreachable limit, but a reachable set of points that binds the geometry into a seamless whole. To find the familiar grace of parallels, we must strategically "break" this projective perfection.

The Affine Plane: The Birth of Parallelism
The transition from Projective to Affine space is an act of mathematical subtraction. If we take a Projective plane and choose to ignore a specific "line at infinity," we create an Affine plane. By removing this "horizon," we allow lines that once met there to become parallel.

Vide  Cameron's Parallelisms of Complete Designs.

* … and see Wikipedia . . .
Sam Neill as Dr. William G. "Billy" Weir,
designer of the Event Horizon.

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