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From: cb@bga.com (Cyberspace Buddha)
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Subject: Re: Line: Projection of a tesseract
Date: 12 Jun 1994 09:28:36 -0500
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Tim <tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>I think this is meant to be a projection of a tesseract, the 4D equivalent of
>the cube.  It consists of 8 cubes, each joined to 6 others by their faces.
>
>A more common, but less symetric projection is:
>         _________
>      ,' |      //|
>    ,____|____/ / |
>   |  \  |___|,/  | 
>   |   \/____||   |
>   |   |    |||   |
>   |   |    |||___|
>   |   |____||'  /
>   |  /     \| ,'
>   |/________|/

one thing I really like about this projection:
in a way, our reality is the eighth cube, where hyperspace is the
other cubes.  thus, our reality is infinite, minus the are of the
other seven hyper-realities.  If you allow the above, extend it to a
general case, any given hyper-space isn't likely to be a regular
hyper-polyhedron.

enough ramblin' speculation for one evening.

cheers,
cb
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