Re: OT hypercube (was: Con-other)
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 30, 2008, 15:36 |
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Oh dear me, to both Mark and Peter. But what remains constant, I presume, is
that the inner hollow remains cube-shaped? I think I more or less get it
now.
/ObConlang: What are the names of geometric shapes and oddities in your
conlangs? In Classical Arithide I used _nozais_ "four-sider" (nost "4" +
daedos "side" + attrition) for square, optionally differentiated from cube
as "flat-four-sider" vs. "standing-four-sider"; rectangles are called
_mázais_ "long-siders" (massa "long"). It seems as though I shall need to
invent a new term for "tesseract". How would you translate that?
Eugene
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> Yup, the "cube inside a cube" picture of a tesseract is exactly
> analogous to a perspective drawing of a cube as a square within a
> square, with diagonals connecting the corners. Only the two squares
> are the proper shape; the other four sides, while square in reality,
> are squashed into trapezoids in the drawing...
>
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