Re: Con-other

I'm very curious, though, about the animation near the top of the article
you provided: It looks as though the structure is a cube inside another à la
Russian Dolls, both with vertices of variable length, and folding in on
itself. When you said that the walls of a tesseract are cubes, I sort of got
the impression that it was supposed to be like a stubby cross. The walls
don't look at all like cubes to me!
Eugene

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Matahaniya ang Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>:
>
>  How does that work? Isn't the 4th dimension time? I'm
>> curious. Tell us more!
>>
>
> No, 4d in geekspeak means a fourth spacial dimension. So you have 12
> directions instead of 6 in analogy from 2d to 3d. The walls of a tesseract
> (4-dimensional equivalent to a cube, also called 'hypercube') are cubes for
> example. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract> for a more math-y
> explanation.
>
> Cheers
> Carsten
>
> --
> Palayena, Lahang 11, 2317 ya 06:15:30 pd
> Friday, May 30, 2008 at 07:27:01 am
>

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