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No. 339: He's looking very determinant today

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He's looking very determinant today

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Strip by: David Morgan-Mar

T-Rex: I've parametrised myself!
T-Rex: In u-v space!
T-Rex: I've bijectively mapped my body to a 2-D manifold.
Dromiceiomimus: Including your insides?
T-Rex: Yes!
Utahraptor: Wait!
Utahraptor: Is this some sort of Voodoo sympathetic magic stuff?!
T-Rex: It's elementary linear algebra.
T-Rex: So, yes!

The author writes:

Dromiceiomimus is clarifying that T-Rex didn't just map his surface to a two-dimensional manifold. That would hardly be impressive, since his surface is already a 2-D manifold.

Obviously.