Passing A Portal Through Itself
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- Опубликовано: 31 авг 2022
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This video is about what happens if you try to pass a portal (like in the video game Portal or Portal 2) through itself - do you get a paradox? Infinite recursion? Impossibility? Contradiction? The end of the world? Collapse of the wavefunction? Ultimately it ends up looking beautiful and weird and recursive and... just watch the video :)
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I love how it's just generally accepted now that Portal's Portals are the only things we're allowed to use for diagrams with portals.
I mean, it’s a good design :D
It's not only allowed, but it's just what people recognize. And simple color coding that exist so player could easily understand which one is which makes it good too. Darksiders have same colored portals, iirc. But they look a little difference. Valve was and still is good at making games.
GLaDoS was right: "Now you're thinking with Portals."
@@Netsuki Darksiders' portals are a direct reference to Valve's portals. If Vigil had never heard of Portal, they would have come up with a different design (or more likely, not have come up with the idea for the Voidwalker at all)
@@CrashSable Everything is inspired by something. If Doom didn't exist, Half-Life would have never been made either. But from mathematical point of view, there is no "what if". It's everything that You can easily calculate. Or maybe not easily, because You have to start to think with portals, but that's just a math. If one point of first portal corresponds with one specific point of the other one, it's all calculable, computable. And we know how these portals work, so anything we don't know, can be just simply calculated.
I can see why the game designers avoided dealing with this through the simple expedient of making the portal close if it's moved.
movable portals are actually possible, and are only used once in portal 2
the reason you dont see it more often is because the physics are completely broken when you enter a moving portal
@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 This has to do with the fact that portals in the portal games have temporary invisible platforms generated to prevent players from getting stuck, among other generated structures that you can't see and often only exist for a few seconds, if even 1.
Technically all portals are moving because motion is relative. The portal to the moon was orbiting the earth portal
@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 Chop those neurotoxin tubes.
@@danielgreenwood793 in portal those are perfectly still.
It’s shocking how well you explained such a trippy and abstract idea in such a short amount of time
"5 days ago" 💀💀💀💀
@@kavearn2 ... your point?
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when you have crazy math and computer skills, stick figure animation ability.
I always think the thumbnail is the eye of sauron.
0:12 R.I.P Bob 2022-2022
Roo
BOOOB NOOOOOOOOOOO
@@Meme_angeluhhh
@@chilliamlikeschillies LMAOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭💀💀
@@Meme_angel 1 less O and that would be something else
Portals actually are everywhere, the problem is they're all back to back, with no way to separate them
just like ninjas...
what if 3d space is the portals
doors.
It is the same problem with monopoles.
Well, in a sense you are right. There are theories about how space emerges from tiny wormholes (ER = EPR). A portal is kind of a simplified wormhole, maybe 🙂
I like the fact that if you're thinking with portals, they always will be blue and orange.
It's hard to imagine using other colors for em.
Ive always preferred purple for other reasons
Well They are really god fucking games
I mean, even in the game there's more than two colours. In co-op mode eventually there has to be 4 simultaneous portals.
@@snerttt Still works, each character is blue and orange respectively and has portal colours reflecting the components of that
Orange has red and yellow
Blue has cyan and indigo
@@tuser8 never thought of that!
This is a troubling thought that I had as a child ever since the release of Portal 2. Thank you so much for solving this 😊
I'd love for you to make a similar video about a more general problem with so-called scaling portals, i.e. those that vary in size, and when something falls into one portal, it comes out of the other with a proportionally changed size. For example - the blue portal is 7 times bigger than the orange one, which means that if a 1.75 meter tall man entered the orange portal, a 12.25 meter tall giant would come out of the blue one. However, if the same 1.75 meter tall man entered the blue portal, a 0.25 meter tall dwarf would emerge from the orange portal. My question is - what would happen if you threw a smaller portal into a larger one, and would it be possible to throw a larger portal into a smaller one if they had the right shapes, and if so, what would be the effect. You will make me very happy if you make a film about it.
Someone else mentioned a game called Superliminal where this is a puzzle solution... because you're trapped in a recursive set and need to destroy reality to continue.
Wouldn't throwing one portal into the other equalize the sizes? If one portal is a ratio from another portal, say 2x, and you throw a 1m long portal into a 2m long portal in a way that fits, you'd have 2 2m portals after
@@dan.w.2432 Just the opposite. What comes out of the smaller portal should be smaller than what goes into the larger one. So if we insert a smaller portal into a larger one, an even smaller copy should come out of the smaller one, and from that copy an even smaller one, and from that an even smaller one, and so on ad infinitum. So, referring to your example - if we insert a 1 m portal into a 2 m portal, then a 0.5 m portal should come out of the 1 m portal, a 0.25 m portal comes out of it, a 0.125 m portal comes out of it, and so on ad infinitum. This is what I get from my calculations, although this answer makes me have even more questions. If I had infinitely many such increasingly smaller portals, what would happen if two different objects entered two different ones? Which of them would come out through the larger portal, or maybe both of them would come out at the same time (but how is that possible)? If I looked at a larger portal, which of the smaller portals would I see there? If I wanted to put the smaller portals back in, but only two of them, and leave the rest untouched indefinitely, what would happen? If a person entered a large portal, and infinitely many small copies of it emerged, which of them would contain the consciousness of the person who entered? If I hit one of his copies (but only one), would the original remember it after returning through the small portal and exiting through the large one (if returning was even possible)?
Someone's been replaying Portal a lot haven't they?
I wonder who is that
Me, probably.
yep
Funny coincidence, I also just started back through the Portal series because I got my Steam Deck. Crazy timing.
Since Portal 2 will be given away for Xbox Live Gold users I'll go and play it one more time
Portal physics must be the thing that keeps this guy up at night and he had to explain it or he would die from curiosity
😅
@@trout3685 ok trout.
You AGAIN ?
Your everywhere
@@Leptronium HIS everywhere?
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welcome to “I don’t understand anything but this is cool”
Glad to see Portal and Portal 2 are still iconic enough to be the way portals are drawn in 2022
yet still not iconic enough for valve to get off their lazy asses and make us a portal 3 :c
@@reznovvazileski3193 valve can't count that high smh
@@xdrakken4710 They made:
3 games with teleporters
3 games with Ellen McLain
3 games with sentry guns
3 games with scientists of questionable sanity
3 games with secret underground bases
3 games where you can disintegrate your foes
All in one box
They love doing things in threes
@@reznovvazileski3193 apparently there was a portal 3 VR planned but it caused motion sickness
@@MelodiesFromTheStars Yea I can kinda imagine that lmao that sounds nauseating and I'm not easily motion sick :')
I like how he just talks about Portals like the ones from the game are the universal standard when we talk about Portals.
Well what is ironic about that is the one from the game don't even function like this. So if he were going off the portals and the rules from that world, then this entire video is much like the cake, a lie.
What is different about the ones from the game?
@@xradar8349 the portals from the game have a certain set of rules and laws in adherence with the world of portal. When one portal is placed with no link to the other side, it remains closed until the second portal is on a stationary surface. So it is impossible to fire one side of a portal link into the other. Therefore this video is not going off the rules of the portals in the game. So no, the man doesn't talk about portals in the game being the universal standard, because if he were doing that then the entire video would be incorrect. Which it is, if based on a fictional idea in a fictional realm with already well established (albeit also fictional) rules for how _those_ portals function.
The more I think about it the more this entire video irritates me hahah.
@@ggmann13 true but he talks about them being orange and blue and being connected to each other and stuff. A portal could be anything if you just call it a portal with no further specification like he did. Could be the portals from Rick and Morty for example or just a normal door. He just starts talking based on the game and makes an "what if the portals from the game where actually like this?" out of it.
@@electricpaisy6045 yes exactly he could have used portals from rick and Morty or just fictional portals full stop lol. But when he immediately pulled the portals from _portal_ he fucked up by pigeon holing himself like he did.
I love that you used the Companion Cube! The Portal references are amazing!
An important detail here is that each portal must have a backing that blocks entry such that entry is possible only through the coloured fronts of the portals. Changing that changes so much.
I'm convinced Henry is making real, working Portals and is posting videos of him testing new features for people to point out so he can fix it. Very effective debugging process.
Doubtful, as he is thinking of them as objects, while they're literally non-objects. It's like saying, I'm going to pass this void through this other void... There's nothing there, a hole is not an object.
@@livedandletdie when u r talking about passing portal through portal u have to assume them to be material
@@livedandletdie no he said they were on objects. The portal itself is not an object no shit it’s a wormhole
@@livedandletdie You can clearly see in the drawing that they are ontop of a metal plate
The blue portal is attached to the plate to the plate going through takes the portal with it
i love how portal has completely changed how we interpret portals and we always see it as one orange and one blue one
Geometry dash portals also look like the Portal ones
Yeah
@@OLLGY69 and many many more, because of the game portal (which is way older than geometry dash)
@@angulinhiduje6093 Honestly, I'm still stuck on Diablo 1 and 2 portals, since, while looking like portal's portals, come so much earlier stylistically that I wonder if some design queues weren't derived from them
You're welcome. That is what we achieve at Aperture Laboratories. Making the impossible, possible.
This is one of the greatest videos I've ever watched.
you always deliver content that's both thought-provoking and enjoyable!
Making this animation seems more difficult than making an actual portal. Very good job
That is what they did with programming...
@@jwonz2054 go make this animation with programming. If u dont do it you are fucking doomed
Blender gets it.
@@abhirupkundu2778 bet
mb dislike was accidental
Crazy how simple the explanation for this is, it really makes it feel like an actual science
It's non-euclidian space/plane study. Technically science, but in the Math department
@@witherschat I think a professor told me that Math and Science are alike in that Science qualitatively explains Math, and Math quantitively explains Science
@@swivel_z1371 yah but Math only tool and if dont use physic right math will not explains any. Actualy this vido explaonetion wrong. Autor
does not take into account portal physics he make only Math and its looks right but its dosent.
@@user-bs2um7li8j And that's what's nice about science, you can say it's wrong and maybe be right since it's theoretical. But the simplest explanation is almost always correct. The more you have to make exceptions and special rules, the less likely you are to be right.
@@swivel_z1371 Actualy no. Its easy to modulate Portals in real life. Physic of portals founded of 4 dementional space. 3D univers lockete in 4D demention and if you make 2 holes and connect them outside 3D in 4D you get portal. So now lets go to 2D univers in 3D demention and repirt . Tacke paper fold it and make 2 holes 1 near edge and enother right at edge. Firt will be illustrait 2 portals located next to each other (1 on one side of the sheet, the other on the other). Second its how this 2 holes will act when cross each others.
Very well explanada and simplified
This was extremely entertaining and hilarious! Great idea
Several things to mention:
1. I loved the explanation, super clear and logical, every part made sense.
2. The animations are beyond my comprehension, this is absolutely fascinating to me how smooth and accurate they were.
3. I guess you're really into portal physics, huh.
Short, sweet, straight to the point. Also the BEST explanation of this question i've seen TO DATE.
@e Shut
number 1 is 100% confirmed, even a dumbass like me understood it
He's probably thinking with them
I remember in the game "superliminal", when you put a portal in a portal, the world will crash and that is actually how you proceed with the game (to free yourself from a self-iterating room). Now I learn that the action will not cause the universe to crash :)
yea but thats because the portal is small
@@commandocat7675 Oh I see. One of the portal was smaller than the other, which was a different scenario.
Not crashing the universe is no fun though :(
Yeah superliminal is such a trippy game
Um… I thought this one out and what’s happening is you have a room that contains itself, so when you threw the room outside of itself it would’ve become an infinite amount of rooms in white space since there was nothing outside the room, or something like that. Hopefully Minute Physics makes a video on it, I would like to understand it more than just my drawings.
I thought this was going to be an impossibility with a super complicated metaphysical answer.
Makes me think of when questions that seem complicated to us will one have a 4 minute explanatory video :)
It would have been nice if you put numbers on the orange portal too, that way we can keep track of which part of the blue portal the blue portal should be coming out of.
I would love to know what happens when you enter the portal that is half immersed in the other portal
the portals would be pushed apart or get stuck with ur body. if appriote preasure is applied you would be squashed together (possibly die/expolode). If the portal is infinitly thin and you are next to the corners of the portal, you may be sliced however your own body would probably stop you from being sliced.
edit: I get now that it'll be impossible to be sliced because there is no space within the portal. however you could still be crushed as long the portals move closer together while you're still stuck inside them. There is no need for high speeds for this to happen. simply applying enough force to move the portals while you are inside them are suffienct. I woudl think this force would be exactly the same as the force needed to crush you between two objects that are not portals
You would either climb through, or get stuck because you bumped into yourself or your portal and are forced to climb out. The portal wouldn't slice or crush you unless you went in at very high speeds and fell on yourself. The portal doesn't change shape, just location and so would you.
Might depend on the angles but I imagine you might try to reach your arm in and then get blocked by your own arm
Pain, that's what happens
I feel like you would just end up unable to fit through until the intersection was resolved due to your own body being in the way unless it was a very large portal. I could be wrong though.
I love it when someone adds complete science to science fiction. So intriguing.
Hello inception
Aperture Labs makes the impossible, possible.
like, dragon anatomy
@@alienhomicide mind.
Blown
@SkeLLy The furnace?
Great Videos, keep it up!!!
ive rewatched this video so many times
Rest in Peace editor of this vid, the pain you went thru was not in vain. Good video.
oof
why is he dead?
@@Cornholio8787 just take a look at the visuals
@@Cornholio8787 he meant rip in a rhetorical sense, because the editor had to work so much
Dont worry, it was for the best. The editor was showing signs of intelligence and had to be placed into the emergency intelligence incinerator.
This was actually a plot point in Problem Sleuth, where portals inside window frames (powered by electric plugs) were a recurring device. If you put a window through its counterpart, the stuff in this video happens, but since the windows have the same physicality as what you'd get at the hardware store, they clunk up against themselves and prevent infinite recursion... unless forced together with sufficient force. Then they explode. Violently.
did not think id see mspa here
@@chronocases9752 our brains dont like infinites so we have no idea what would hypothetically happen if you created infinite recursion
@@pirilon78 thats not true. All of calculus is infinite recursion.
@@e4Bc4Qf3Qf7 i said we dont know what would happen. Theres a difference between numbers and reality
@@pirilon78 Demonstrably incorrect. If your numbers aren’t an expression of reality, you’re doing them wrong.
This is exactly the solution I came up with when I was little, but I've never seen it explained so clearly! Pretty dope
This was super entertaining, thank you
can't wait for real portals to be invented just for either this to happen something catastrophic that breaks all laws of physics
Quoting Dwayne Johnson from the movie Doom: I don’t do nano walls.
Portals as they exist in-game break the law of conservation of energy, so I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for them to be developed.
@@WUZLE And breaks relativity too
@@pain16tdn45 How so?
Tbh if portals would exist like p2 this wouldnt work. As the portal wormhole is just relative distance. Blue and orange will always be a certain amount of units apart unless reopened at another position. Thats also why moving portals wouldnt work... idk about other fictional portals though so w/e lmao
I was having a hard time following why the blue portal "bent" along the surface of the orange portal, so I had to draw it out myself continuing the blue portal through the orange portal in a "virtual space" where I could see how the angle of the blue portal loops in on itself and thus comes out of the orange portal at that lower angle.
What will happen if the blue portal is smaller than the orange one?
@@demonking5934 it cannot be. If so, they "break the rules", like how an object bigger than the smaller portal will behave if it passes through the bigger portal?
@@demonking5934 My guess is that the blue portal would become smaller as it's coming out of itself, if there were 2 portals one bigger and one smaller it would act like in the game superliminal where the object that enter the smaller portal would become bigger and bigger until it can't fit through the portal anymore and if the object enters the bigger portal it would get smaller and smaller until you can't physically see it anymore.
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Thx for this amazing video!
It was pretty interesting to watch.
Thanks!
“Placing a *portal* within a *portal* instantly destroys both items and opens a gate to the Astral Plane. The gate originates where the one item was placed inside the other. Any creature within 10 feet of the gate is sucked through it to a random Location on the Astral Plane. The gate then closes. The gate is one-way only and can't be reopened.”
Finally, something I understand in the comments
Okay yeah this seems accurate
@@Tacid_Krios yeah cause it's complete mumbo jumbo garbage 🤣
@@josephkerr5018 What is complete mumbo jumbo garbage?
@@josephkerr5018 It's the Dungeons and Dragons rule attached to some objects that involve demi-planes or inter-planar travel. Don't really care either way, but that's what their referencing.
Portal was based on Narbacular Drop, and you can shoot portals through other portals in that game. Valve hired the entire staff that made Narbacular Drop and they made Portal.
Not staff, students. It was an amazing school project.
Shooting a portal creation projectile through another portal isnt the problem here at all
also everyone already knows that lol
I played that before. Shooting new Portals thru an existing Portal sounds like a cool idea at first, but you realize after a while it's basically cheating. For example if you just stand in front of an orange Portal looking thru it, you can shoot new blue Portals thru that until it reaches the entire end of the map, then just walk thru it once and you're done.
@@generaldirection5123 you'd have to design the puzzles differently, but it's not difficult to see how one could do so.
@@oldspicewhistle8191 i didnt know that already
thank you for this explanation
What is the edge of a portal? Like say you touch the red or blue ring, is it solid like touching the frame of a window? Or what? And what if you reached your hand in and wrap your arm around the edge and "behind" the portal?
This is probably your best video in years. It helps solve one of those nagging annoying ideas in the back of your head that you can't visualise yourself but is definitely possible to investigate and find a conclusion to. I feel like years of a little nugget of stress in my mind has vanished.
This video is a god damned public service.
lol so freaking true, well put into words!
Now for the real question: How would the momentum of a portal passing through itself affect its trajectory?
A portal does not have any mass I guess
Do portals have momentum?
do portals have mass?? Well they don't move with the speed of light.... hmmm
portals are not made of matter thus they have no mass thus they have no momentum
Can you assign momentum to space itself? You can with radiation, but I don't know enough about general relativity to know whether one can assign momentum to a space wave, or gravitational wave, or a space topology thingy like a portal must be.
A wonderful explanation
This was a thing in problem sleuth, where the windows were portals, and pushing a window through a window would cause a fractal-like exponential stacking of windows within windows until it lead to a huge explosion lol. It was later used as a way to help defeat the bad guy’s minions
If a blue portal comes through an orange portal, it then comes through itself. However, the new, rotated part of the blue portal must also have itself passing through. Krzyhau simulated this in Triple Laser, and the game crashed because the blue portal had to rendered through the orange portal infinitely many times.
No, the portal only appears out of one place.
this is the question I need a professional physics answer to
it works, its just... yeah
a portal tunnel isint actually infinite, it's like pointing a camera towards it's feed where there's an infinite loop on the screen
Heck if this is how it is then irl it should be impossible to build portals at all.
These portal videos are a triumph
I’m making a note here: huge success!
@@rpungello It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction
@@Asterism_Desmos Aperture Science
Portalception
@@ConfuSomu We do what we must because we can
This came into my had at 2AM. Thanks
Think makes so much sense once you start to think about it
I think what I found to be the most unusual about this video is how intuitive it was once explained. I've often thought about this, myself, but could never mentally work out what kind of behavior we should expect from an interaction like this.
Lo and behold, as soon as it's explained here, it becomes obvious but I just couldn't wrap my head around it until it was explained.
I like how this question is easier to answer than the question about the trajectory of the cube.
Um... hi?
Does your handle get you shadowbanned in some places too? Maybe even banned?
@@likebot. Haha yes, pleasure to meet you. I think I may have been shadowbanned on Reddit for suspected spamming (not by people but by actual bots, which is kind of ironic).
Be honest. You guys are just saying Shadow banned because you think it sounds cool, right?
@@MrQuinnlord no being shadow banned is different
@@insertafunnyname478 this guy gets it
Thank you for making this video it was so cool 😎
this makes so much sense
Interesting that it always maintains its total surface area. That makes sense, of course - I just never even would've thought of it if you asked me this out of the blue.
How about: Out of the orange?
@@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am How about: Into the orange?
@@MichaelDarrow-tr1mn
That's just: Out of the blue, with extra steps.
Out of the Blue sounds like a documentary of the making of Portal tbh
@@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am exactly.
I feel as though there will be some real world counterparts behind this logic and it could be useful.
So if you throw a smaller portal in a portal then it Infinitly comes out of itself?
Like portals don't actually EXIST. So yeah good luck explaining physics on imaginary objects.
@@katsu_xd_4823 How the hell would the same two ends of a portal be different sizes?
@@jd_kreeper2799 I'm just saying what if
@@katsu_xd_4823 THat makes no sense though, even in-game. How would one opening be smaller than the other?
It's crazy how im learning way more from these weird videos rather than in school or at math
Amazing, very good.
My question is: are there any unique portal 'paradoxes' or thought experiments which involve movable "co-op portals" from the sequel? I.e., cyan-purple linked portals and yellow-red linked portals working together. It seems like it would be easy to put a nonlinked portal through a portal, but I'm wondering if there's any situations where Interesting Things Happen when you have two pairs of portals. What about more than two?
Cave Johnson would probably say "Psssh the only paradoxes we have in Aperture Science are the ones we use to dispatch the bad AI. In our R&D department, we give you our quality assurance that the testing chambers we provide are either working or broken."
There an independent sequel (Portal Reloaded) that shoots a third "time" portal. It actually connects 2 different worlds, one of which is a future aged/destroyed version of the "present" test facility. You have to jump between times to solve puzzles. Paradoxes can happen but the game deals with them by erasing specific changes you've made in the "future" when you modify the "present" (i.e. you can bring a cube from the future-side to the present-side and get away with two versions of the same cube, but if you move a cube originally from the present its future version would vanish -whenever it is- and pop-up in the future-side at the place you left it in the past).
there's the thing of moving portals being weird (see youtu.be/watch?v=B19nlhbA7-E ) but that's pretty much the only other issue with portals.
There's also the second one (which you can watch at ruclips.net/video/zDAE9A_1NA4/видео.html )
1:07 Blue Portal got a stiffy
😳
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LOL
Sniffy with the griddy?
Happy new year by the way!
Awesome, thanks.
Amazing that you could pull off that animation in AE
Warning ⚠️: Thinking with portals may blow your mind. Aperture Science would like to take this opportunity to stress it upon you that they are not responsible for any cranial mishaps due to rapid expansion of the brain. Thank you and good luck testing out there.
I always love these portal paradox videos, although I guess this one isn't really a paradox like the others 🤔 still super interesting to see it fully rendered, you did a great job with that 👍 👏
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After i read Aperture Science the voice in my head switched to glados xD
@@unluckypanda5448 Your brain doing it's job.
For it to pass all the way through requires squeezing or infinite thinness. So its a paradox unless the portals defy physics
@@seeker296 I had the same thought in the last video actually, I assumed the edges were solid like in the games because you can stand in the portals on their edge, and because they have a thickness they'd be unable to fully pass thru each other at any angle, this does work if you consider the edges to be infinitely thin but if you work with the game logic then it's a little less possible, you still get the wacky portal protrusions tho
“If you put them back to back you shouldn’t be able to tell there is a portal at all and they retain this behavior…” is one of the most physicist ways of describing something.
Thank you for answering tbis question i had this question for a while
This was the questions ive being looking for
This explains the extremely recursive fractal effects and that video about being squished between two portals
Also, by default the game only does 2 graphical recursions "for real". The 3rd onward are copy pasting from the previous video frame and definitely isn't designed to work with intersecting portals.
Glad it's not only me who immediately recalled that video
I am so glad someone started doing the calculations on this question BEFORE i thought of asking it!
i love the companion cube reference
This is a brilliant watch right before my exam day
Did this in unreal engine a few years ago and it was super trippy, exactly like this demonstration shows.
Video?
yeah and Elon Musk is my brother
@@UncontrolledxXx its not a difficult thing to do. Portal like engine existed since 2004. There are many youtube videos how to make portals in unreal too
@@duckmeat4674 he actually is Elon Musk's brother !!
I like that Valve's Portals have just become the standard when animating/making portals. theyre always orange and blue ^^
It's a great artistic choice. They're opposites on the color wheel, making them complimentary. Complimentary colors almost always look good together and are known to attract attention.
Thanks for the clues science steve
This concept really screws with my mind.
I used to think about this a ton as a kid. Thought it would be possible if you slid the portal in at a shallow angle facing itself, but I couldn't have simulated it as well as this!
At first it was really hard to imagine, but adding the numbers helps make it easier to understand. It definitely gets super trippy when you started changing the directions it could go through the other portal.
I know, right?
I remembered wondering about how this would work, just concluded reality would just break.
I knew that it kinda worked like this but I always like to imagine that if the portal comes out of itself one to many times it rips a hole in space, just because it sounds cool.
this is so cool. man. glad you had this idea to share- its really satisfying too when you see it all animated, like it just makes sense. very very cool.
He actually uses his account 😯
I saw a man that did earlier it on Unity engine that had almost 60k views. So it's probably not his idea.
Cool
I thought that mercury got you bro
did see a screenshot once from the portal game where someone had managed to make the portals overlap a little bit.
it looked like an infinite number of portals, I dont know how the game managed that without crashing, unless it all counts as the 2 original portals and what is seen is just visual effect and doesnt cause any strain on the engine.
Im guessing you're talking about portal 2
Portal 2 already runs pretty well
But the infinite portal thing is 2d so it doesn create an infinite space
It just makes you think there's one
portal has a flag which u can set to have moving portals. It's evident from the level where u disable the neurotoxin. Also there's a max reflection depth coded in and can be changed to a max of 64 if I remember.
Crowbcat did a video on that called "crushed between two portals"
ruclips.net/video/0TZd95BCKMY/видео.html (link is separate to be safe)
@@spacebassist really I'm just happy that there's a link in a youtube comment and it isn't spam or a bot trying to fish clicks.
Legit link to a legit video of getting crushed between 2 portals. Thank you.
im subbing, you're actually cooler than i thought
Cool video, thanks!
this process may get even more chaotic in the face of attempting to pass solid objects or just to see Einstein cry, fluids, nutonian or otherwise for extra fun through said cascading portals. nonnutonian fluids may just be a messy idea.
I believe the word you're looking for is "newton"ian, as in Isaac Newton.
@@SomeRandomDevOpsGuy Don't be silly. It's "newt"onian because they're amphibious
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0:58 you're such a tease
LMAOO
LMFAOOO
at exactly 1:32, the below part of the blue portal where the star is directed towards right should not move downwards after it is generated by its own thickness. Just after its thickness generated which moves it downwards by the amount of its thickness, the second blue portal generated from it should move upwards passing the "very first" blue portal and moves upwards.
I love how surprisingly intuitive it all end up looking, especially in 2D. There's a reason we love thinking with portals!
Now you're thinking with portals
I like how we are still asking (and answering) questions related to impossible to represent in reality subjects, such as portals. This of course is not limited to portals, but I have mentioned it to stay on topic.
What happens if u pass trought a portal passing trought itself
Portals are about as likely as black holes. Why should portals be science fiction if we accept worm holes, super black holes, dark matter, quantum entanglement, etc?
fun fact if you have 3 portals like red blue and green it would basicly make them disapear if you make the red one go trough the green one and the blue trought the red one making a loop like square and if you push it further it would be like somewhat 4d
@ 1:26 Now the real question is what is the “top” and bottom of a portal, and what is the front and back side when they exist in free space 🤯
Impressive. Most impressive.
Mid-way through the vid, I imagined (in my own thought experiment) the portals could go crazy, flapping about trying to equalize, then spin along each other, eventually blowing up.
Why? I don't see at all what would bring you to that conclusion
@@maker0824 Just some fun.
I am pretty sure a portal would never explode.
@@Emanuele_Polisena They said the same thing about exploding lemons and look how that turned out.
Noice!
I'm giggling so much at the animation @1:10
i love you companion cube, nobody knows me like you do.
Spot taking notes
What would happen if the two portals were half-way intersected, then you went through at an angle such that you entered both portals simultaneously?
fictional science lab invents portal gun, random youtube commentor uses portal gun to create duplicates of themselves... quick someone write it as a plot device for Portal 3
You probably wouldn't be able to do so : your body parts would collide together and not let you in
@@gawkthimm6030 it would be called portal printer
(it prints you)
You would just fold yourself or tear yourself apart. But if you're just jumping in, you'd collide with yourself or the portal edge and fall away from the portals, no worse for wear. The gravity would make you puke though.
bad happens
1:05
man why does shit like that make me giggle
Finally, someone finally answered a thought I had since a child!
That deserves a sub