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From: salesman <salesman@g-grids.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: HyperCube (Diamond Explained)
Date: 1997/06/10
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In article <339D4F82.1296@garnet.fsu.edu>, Michael Naylor
<mnaylor@garnet.fsu.edu> waffles on
>I was 'thumbing' through Scarecrow's collection, and came across this.  
>This is _not_ a diamond... this is a hypercube, a four-dimensional 
>object.  It's a cube that's been stretched into another dimension.  
>(Didn't draw it, just setting the record straight).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Michael 
>
>
>[I believe this next one is a diamond.]
>    _________
>   /|\     /|\
>  / |  \ /  | \
> /__|__/ \__|__\
>|\  |  | |  |  /|
>| \ |----|--| / |
>| /\-\---|---/\ |
>|/_____|\|_____\|
> \  |  \ /  |  /
>  \ |  / \  | /
>   \|/     \|/
>    --------
>

I just spent a few secs staring at this realy hard, and I can quite
clearly see 4 cube shapes (like the ones in mikes sig), but I don't see
how this represents 4-d. To me it represents 4-cubes-overlapping-each-
other-bit :)
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