4D Tesseract: Fourth Dimension Game
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4D Tesseract: Fourth Dimension Game
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#2I'll just be the first to admit that I am indeed too dumb to grasp this concept. I've stared at it for a long time, but I do not get it.
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#3Whee, looks like fun!
Adanaxis[1] is a 4 dimensional space shooter- only sort of playable but still fun.
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#4I'll just be the first to admit that I am indeed too dumb to grasp this concept. I've stared at it for a long time, but I do not get it.
You're probably trying to think about it in spatial terms. But it's impossible to understand a 4D object with 3D spatial reasoning. I would say ALL humans are too "dumb" to grasp this concept. Of course the math is fairly simple, but there's a difference between understanding the math and truly understanding what a world with 4 spatial dimensions would be like.
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#5For those trying to wrap their heads around this ... I find this segment by Carl Sagan from the original Cosmos to be pretty well presented on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0
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#6I'll just be the first to admit that I am indeed too dumb to grasp this concept. I've stared at it for a long time, but I do not get it.
I had a math professor who put it this way: Just think of a general n-dimensional Euclidian space, and then set n=4.
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#7If I give this to my kids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimsy_Were_the_Borogoves) will they disappear?
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#8I'll just be the first to admit that I am indeed too dumb to grasp this concept. I've stared at it for a long time, but I do not get it.
I had a math professor who put it this way: Just think of a general n-dimensional Euclidian space, and then set n=4.
My first CompSci professor told me that he had trouble at MIT grasping some of his early math where they were using n-dimensions, and when he asked his professor what the 'n-ball' was, he drew a circle on the board and said 'that, when n is equal to two'. Fun times.
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#9I'll just be the first to admit that I am indeed too dumb to grasp this concept. I've stared at it for a long time, but I do not get it.
It's tricky because there is just no way to show 4D phenomenon without a lot of sacrifice. I ended up using a combination of "perspective" for size and differing transparency and a fair amount of movement. All of these are artificial of course.
The explanation on the page takes another approach: all black and white line drawings and a lot of brevity.
But it's really a hell of a lot of fun tying to figure out how to present impossible to visualize phenomenon.
And you are not remotely too dumb: if my story didn't come through it's my fault.
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#10For those trying to wrap their heads around this ... I find this segment by Carl Sagan from the original Cosmos to be pretty well presented on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0
His explanation is more or less adapted from "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions"
http://www.amazon.com/Flatland-Dover-Thrift-Editions-Abbott/...