Speculation with portals
Please don't let this die.
I have a couple of posts planned... I want to revisit Player1's thought experiment on how a cube-shaped volumetric portal would differ from a cube made out of three pairs of square-shaped portals. Like I said before, though, I think I need diagrams for this, and I haven't gotten around to doing it yet.
I've been really busy the last few weeks (I just started a new job), but I have a little break over <Holiday Name Here>. I hope to whip up some pictures and make a new post or two in this thread in the next three or four days.
Someone should make a map with six rooms that use a central cube with three pairs of interlinked (Though, sadly not square. Silly engine limitations) portals.
*nods*
I thought each map had only 2 portals, one O and one O.
My concept is that it's a power limitation.
After all, per Niven, if you put a portal on the floor and one on the ceiling, you've discovered perpetual motion. So my theory is that somewhere, GlaDOS is on top of a fusion power plant that does nothing but juice the portals.
Without enough power, the portal would fail - you couldn't exit. (or maybe you exit, but you freeze, or some of you doesnt' make it due to being converted to pay the energy debt).
Back to the spirit of the original post, what happens if you turn off a portal with something half in it?
I tried 'floating' a cube in a pair of floor portals then shooting the portal at the wall, and of course the cube just pops out. But if you watch a pair of portals, when you shoot a new one, the complimentary portal 'fades' for a second while the new portal is being shot.
So ... where's the other half of the cube during that process?
Other weird thoughts:
What if you had 2 portal guns, would they be on the same frequency or different? In other words, would it just be 2 guns both shooting the same 2 portals, or 2 totally different portals? And can we set this up with a Map?
== John ==
Ok is it possiable for some one to have a small peice of wall large enough to place a portal on it and then give that wall the propertie to be capable of being held via the portal gun??
What I am thinking is what if you took that piece of wall that had a portal on it and put it in another portal WHILE IN GAME!!!
That would be intresting if it could be done, no???
Would the game crash or something???
could it fit through the other portal?
nevermind, i guess it could if you put it through sideways and not straight up
What I am thinking is what if you took that piece of wall that had a portal on it and put it in another portal WHILE IN GAME!!!
That would be intresting if it could be done, no???
Would the game crash or something???
We have to assume that all portal physics that are currently in-game are static. I.E., portals on (relative) moving surfaces.
But assuming that portals could be placed on relative moving surfaces, just thinking about it for a minute or two, eventually there would come a point where it is far enough through that it would not fit correctly. Even sideways.. since it's coming out the portal on the object that is going through the blue portal.
Though perhaps my thoughts aren't explained very well. 
Here's my thought for the day: Would it be possible via a confluence of portals to give yourself a blow-job? Mods may strike me down horribly if this is a bit risque, but honestly, if you could... wouldn't you?
Edit: Super awesome additional thought. What if (Like in the original Narbacular Drop) you could fire portals through other portals (Similar to the walk-barely-through-and-fire trick but without the walking barely through part). A lot of puzzles would be easier, perhaps, but.. more/less fun?
Hmm, if you're halfway a portal when it closes, the fold that was made in the 4th dimension, would disappear. But since you're at 2 places in threedimensional timespace at once, wouldn't those remain connected? Personally I think the portal would be forced to remain open, but perhaps for as far as your body size. Maybe it would lead to extreme stress on your body, enough for it to collapse (cut in 2). That is determined by wheter you need energy to keep a portal open once it's created. If that's so, and the energy is no longer supplied by an external source, it will have to be supplied by whatever is inside the 4th dimension (halfway the portals) (hence the extreme stress on your body). That demand of energy would probably grow so big, it would tear your body appart...
I just realize what I wrote above is total nonsense and I've wasted 5 minutes of my life writing it... whatever...
"Duct Tape is the answer."
I just realize what I wrote above is total nonsense and I've wasted 5 minutes of my life writing it... whatever...
lol, I tried to make sence of what you posted, but I can't lol. I don't get the jist of what it is you are trying to say? First off, the 4th Dimension is TIME and the 3 Dimensional TimeSpace that you use is only 3 Dimensional Space, for our 3 Dimensions ocupy the space of Length, width, and Depth, but not time. Only the one Dimension of time ocupys the space and time or space-time.