Spend enough time in polyamorous spaces and you see love shapes you cant even imagine
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You cannot grasp the true form of Polycule's love!
The generalization of a love triangle for n people is a n - 1 dimensional love simplex.
- One person: Love point
- Two people: Love line segment
- Three people: Love triangle
- Four people: Love tetrahedron
- Five people: Love 5-cell (also called hypertetrahedron, pentachoron, etc.)
Of course, more complicated shapes probably exist too
Love Klein bottle
my problem with this is that these relationships cannot be adequately modeled as complete, nor even undirected graphs. A love K_3 has no conflict that is to be resolved, thats just a throuple, how is one to make a drama out of it? Same for a love K_4 or indeed any love K_n where n∈ℕ. We need more interesting graphs for romantic storytelling, more precisely, digraphs with lots of single directional edges that can over the course of the story be worked into a collection of disjoint complete digraphs where the K_1 is only permissible if it has a loop. Preferably the selfcentered inlaws.
That's a good point. Perhaps an ordinary love triangle must also be presented as a directed graph, and thus all generalizations should be a directed graph which would be equivalent to the above shapes if the graph were undirected and complete.
love pyramid scheme where every love interest contributes two people interested in them but which they are disinterested in.
love tesseract
Sounds like my kind of Saturday night.
love Feynman diagram
>~<
It's more a love V really
and what if you add Samoa Joe into the mix
disaster
love pyramid
love tetrahedron
4 Dimensional Pentachoron of Love, Hate, and Indifference
love hendecagon where each side is one type of liberalism according to Mao
Love dodecahedron
Love hexadecagon
Love tetrahedron
Lovagons.
CCS hitting us with the Sakura and Xiaolang both crushing on Yukito while Tomoyo crushes on Sakura before Xiaolang switches over to crushing on Sakura, which I guess isn't strictly a love square so much as a... uh... hmmm... (geometry isn't my strong suit)
Love rhombus