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See 4-D Space With 3-D Glasses

Posted by timothy on from the them's-fancy-watchin' dept.

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."

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  1. hold up... by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    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 ;-P

    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

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  2. It's quite simple.... by Jeffv323 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!!

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  3. Aaahhh, now I see by RenHoek · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's one of those OpenGL Windows 95 screensavers! :) Why didn't you just say so?

    1. Re:Aaahhh, now I see by DjMd · · Score: 3, Funny

      Really?

      The BSOD (Blue screen of death) is the 5th Dimension?
      Cool. Bill Gates is Buckaroo Banzai!




      Oh come on you are just jealous that you didn't make the Buckaroo Banzai reference!

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  4. Re:Holy crap! by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

    You realize, though, that real life girls are 4-dimensional. 5 if you count their emotional state.

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  5. Re:You don't need 3-D glasses... by flonker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Simple solution. Stick a crayon in your left eye. That'll fix things real good.

  6. I have a large collection of 4D media by guttentag · · Score: 5, Funny
    Each one takes a 3D image and progresses along a fourth dimensional plane I like to call:

    <fingerquotes>TIME<fingerquotes>
    This combination is stored in a media format I call a:
    <fingerquotes>MO-VIE<fingerquotes>
    4D is very subjective, so long as you are allowed to define the four dimensions involved.