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See 4-D Space With 3-D Glasses
purpleant writes: "A hyperplane is a 3-dimensional space that slices through the 4-dimensional space, the same way a 2-dimensional plane can slice through our 3-dimensional space. The bounding hyperplanes can be extended infinitely so that they criss-cross through each other, chopping up hyperspace into many 4-dimensional 'chunks.' Again the inner chunks are finite, and they are distributed in shells around the core polytope. The
HyperStar applet displays those finite chunks, one shell at a time. The inner shells are complete -- each shell completely encases the previous shell. The outermost shells have holes in them."
In my complex analysis class at University, my professor said it was easy to visualize 4 dimensional functions. He proceeded to draw some kind of squiggle on the chalkboard and said, "There, just don't be close minded". We didn't laugh.
It the worlds first java-based kaladioscope!!
Now all I need s a webbrowser at the end of a tube and I can relive my childhood.
In Soviet Russia you dant have to put up with these crappy jokes
FE:So, what's the closest you ever came to experiencing the fourth dimension?
Rucker: Well, there was this one time, we'd been partying all night, and I wanted to get a little higher. We were almost out of drugs, but I did have some acid. So I took it, but then I fell asleep. And when I woke up...
FE: Oh, I've been there. That's the fourth dimension?
so it's 5 am monday morning on the east coast and i decide to check out slashdot before going to bed for 4 hours of shuteye before work tomorrow (don't ask, crazy weekend). i am bleary eyed, brain dead, exhausted.
;-P
and i read "The bounding hyperplanes can be extended infinitely so that they criss-cross through each other, chopping up hyperspace into many 4-dimensional 'chunks.' Again the inner chunks are finite, and they are distributed in shells around the core polytope."
dudes! my functional iq right now is about 50! if you are going to post these kind of stories on slashdot, could you PLEASE post them around, say 3pm on a thursday? thanks
i should be awake by then, and i promise i will come back and try to wrap my mind around this story at that time... grumble, grumble
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Step 1: Make cool applet with shapes and colors. .....
Step 2: Explain shapes and colors with big words and things nobody knows anything about ie: hyperplanes, polytopes, and the fourth dimension
Step 3:
Step 4: Profit!!
I'm a minister!
It's one of those OpenGL Windows 95 screensavers! :) Why didn't you just say so?
"Again the inner chunks are finite, and they are distributed in shells around the core polytope."
uhh yeah, but it all depends on the capacitive current getting to the space modulator
come on, lets do a thorough reporting job. You didnt even mention the fucking space modulator.
You realize, though, that real life girls are 4-dimensional. 5 if you count their emotional state.
"Derp de derp."
Simple solution. Stick a crayon in your left eye. That'll fix things real good.
I don't have a pair of 3d glasses, is there any kind of computer screen filter that has the same effect?
Yeah, they call it "Alcohol"
If by 4D you mean totally fictional and only created to serve social leader's agendas and scare ignorant masses into submission through threats of eternal punishment, then yes, yes he is.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Hello flonker,
Could you please post your telephone number? My lawyer would like to talk to you. I'm off to the hospital, cu guys.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey