{"595110":{"#nid":"595110","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bending the Rules of Geometry","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Physics Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/elisabetta-matsumoto\u0022\u003EElisabetta Matsumoto\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1702.04004\u0022\u003Eresearch\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in hyperbolic virtual reality recently captured the attention of The New York Times. This video shows off Matsumoto and her research team\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;work from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/warped-reality\u0022\u003Eearlier this year\u003C\/a\u003E as it highlights\u0026nbsp;the difference between Euclidean space, where the normal rules of geometry apply, and hyperbolic space, where those rules are warped and curved\u0026nbsp;like the \u0026quot;cell\u0026quot; boundaries in this video. The hope is that these\u0026nbsp;depictions of non-Euclidean geometry will assist in mathematics and geometry research. Matsumoto is also a researcher for\u0026nbsp;the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/smi.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESoft Matter Incubator\u003C\/a\u003E at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/stami.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for the Science and Technology of Applied Materials and Interfaces \u003C\/a\u003E(STAMI).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-08-28 14:57:10","changed_gmt":"2017-08-28 15:01:04","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/science\/100000005297565\/bending-rules-hyperbolic-geometry-vi-hart.html","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"589212":{"id":"589212","type":"image","title":"Elisabetta Matsumoto","body":null,"created":"1490295854","gmt_created":"2017-03-23 19:04:14","changed":"1490295854","gmt_changed":"2017-03-23 19:04:14","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224501","name":"sabetta_matsumoto_headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sabetta_matsumoto_headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sabetta_matsumoto_headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40709,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sabetta_matsumoto_headshot.jpg?itok=U8OxHzIw"}}},"media_ids":["589212"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"173838","name":"Elisabetta Matsumoto"},{"id":"175330","name":"hyperbolic virtual reality"},{"id":"59201","name":"non-Euclidean geometry"},{"id":"172973","name":"STAMI"},{"id":"172971","name":"Soft Matter Incubator"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}