Amusing/Confusing gcc Compiler warning message

"warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules"

I can parse it, and sort of understand it...but it verges on incomprehensibility!

ttyl

Aleister Crowley...across the Fourth Dimension!

No, it's not the sequal to Buckaroo Bonzai...but an interesting oberservation.

Please consider these two images:

The Unicursal Hexagram:


A scuplture of a three dimensional projection of a 4 dimensional object:


Both projections have a smilar "feel" to them for me.

This interesting article, "The Unicursal Hexagram as Hyperbola", which I found talks about the goemetry of conic sections that I think is a good first step...http://www.ecsd.com/~msanborn/unicursal.html

The article that I ran across on the sculpture is here: http://www.sciencenewsdaily.org/story-7409.html

Personally, I think the Unicursal Hexagram is most likely a 2/3 dimension projection of a n-dimension figure.

It did tickle my inner-erisian to note that the sculpture has a total of 23 vertices.