Tendo City

Tetrisphere, some of you have played it.

So have I.

It always seemed "odd" to me but I could never quite put my finger on it. However, I now realize that what stands before me on my screen is mathematically impossible. The lines that cut it into a grid neither "meet" like a meridian nor do they get smaller and smaller until they reach a "pole" like the equator and it's brethren (the name of which I forget). They are always parallel and they are always the same size, and you see this as you spin it.

Further, upon looking closely at the blocks making up each piece, they do not in fact "shrink" closer to the sphere than away, they actually are made up of cubes with no distortion to make them fit a spherical surface, and there's no distortion ON the ball either. That don't make sense! Perfect squares of that size would result in a "lego block" sphere if anything.

Lastly, an experiment. I took a single piece, which as you know has a fixed orientation and can't be rotated, and attempted to rotate it relative to the sphere. I should have been able to "cheat" it into essentially being in a different orientation. I moved it up north to the top as I could see it, then slid it left back to the same line I had it, and slid it back. Lo and behold, that FELT weird in my EYES, because the thing didn't slide back in horizontally or anything of the sort. The piece was still the same, and the sphere itself was in the same orientation I started with, defying the way a sphere should work.

I had always thought it felt "funny" the way the sphere looked and behaved but could never put my finger on it. Now with some more education I can actually go in there and accurately pinpoint the descrepencies.

What I can't do is figure out how this thing manages to exist in defiance of all logic. Thoughts? And yes, it's a video games, but even in a virtual world a sphere, as a mathematical construct, HAS to behave in certain ways. There's more to this than meets the eye, like a transformer...

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Never played the game before? The "sphere" just looks uncanny!

Actually I play it alot, it's a great game. The one hole in your hypothesis of its realities? It's a TETRISPHERE not a sphere as man understands one, it is beyond all comprehension and can only be accepted, never understood. Hence why they give you the choice of which zaney character icon will accompany you (I like the nerdy one) on your quest to reach the Tetrisphere's core element; the Glowing Quasar-Zygote Manifold, which in actuality, is best described as a release of natural gases in 7 dimensional space. Also known as "n pornography"

I have found the solution.

The tetri"sphere" is a tetridonut, from the inside, massively distorted through visual tricks before it gets sent to our eyes, but MATH allows us to see through the illusion!

When I say I "found" the solution I mean in my meanderings I found that others noticed the same thing and found the only shape that topographically matches what the tetrisphere does.

The game should be called "tetrinotreallyaspherebutadonutthathasbeengraphicallydistoredtosuperficiallyresembleasphereonyourscreen".