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Is there any physical meaning of the image on Feynman's T-shirt? enter image description here

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Surely there is a story behind the print on Feynman's tee, these are the CM-1/CM-2 T-shirts. Quoting Tamiko Thiel:

The geometric boxes and their 'hard' connections represent the 12-dimensional 'cube of cubes' that forms the internal hardware network connecting all processor chips with each other in a maximum of 12 steps. Feynman is the one who suggested this structure, and I played with the topology until I came up with this representation, which can be expanded for an infinite number of dimensions.

They were also a part of Jobs's think different campaign.

References:

http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/cm/cm-tshirt.html

http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/cm/tshirt/

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  • $\begingroup$ Note: the diagram only actually describes 6 dimensions (3 dimensions in each cube, and 3 inter-cube dimensions). $\endgroup$
    – Hugh Bothwell
    Feb 2, 2015 at 13:54
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    $\begingroup$ @Angew This woman $\endgroup$
    – ritvik1512
    Feb 3, 2015 at 3:29