Tar Dis

When considering patterns, could the DoctorWho Tardis be considered a Facade? ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20131129

The Tardis is no more (or less) an exemplar of the FacadePattern than anything else. An automobile dashboard is an example of FacadePattern. A computer keyboard and screen are an example of FacadePattern. Any simplified and unified interface to a complex system can be considered an example of FacadePattern.

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The TarDis has a chameleon-circuit

• DoctorWho fans know what the TarDis is, but for those unfamiliar with this ongoing Sci-Fi series on BBC, here are some references:
  • Tv series and media site
    • http://www.bbcamerica.com/doctor-who/
  • About the Tardis
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS#Conceptual_history

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Here is a picture:

• which associates the physical appearance:
  • It has two visual appearances
  • First: an exterior appearance, which one sees as a simple Blue British Police Callbox
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  • Whereas it appears, when inside, to be much larger.
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It has but one entrance and exit point, its door. It has a particularly unique characteristic: it can travel in more than three dimensions, and in any direction in the time dimension, where it is taken to be the 4th dimension.

Mathematics and Software make abstractions allowing for multi-dimensional structures and virtual worlds and spaces utilizing them. The Tardis in DoctorWho seems to be the Facade representing the boundary between the real space-time which is traveled in a forward direction of time, and the fictional Sci-Fi scenario where space and time can be travelled merely by the manipulation of controls within the Tardis.

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See: FacadePatternDiscussion CategoryAbstraction