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To: MortMan

That’s only one way (and the easiest) to represent a hypercube.
Another way is to envision two 3d cubes, “open” the corner of one and place it “inside” the other, and connect all the corresponding corners. The resulting 8 cubes, as is in the prior illustration, have 2 that look “normal” and 6 that are skewed due to the down-dimensioning representation in 3d.

Read “And he built a crooked house” by Heinlein for more detail.


28 posted on 05/20/2014 5:53:35 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB; MortMan
Also good to keep in mind is that this object, if moved along the 4th axis through the 3D space you are observing would appear as a point and grow to a full sized cube then shrink again to a point before vanishing from your view. To your perception, it would always be a cubic object or a point.

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29 posted on 05/20/2014 6:15:59 AM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (<= Mash name for HTML Xampp PHP C JavaScript primer. Programming for everyone.)
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