Message #3224

From: Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Visualizing 4D Environment
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 16:23:33 -0800

The best thing to do with these sorts of ideas is to try them out for
yourself. Several members here have become quite good programmers simply
because they had a passion to see something in particular and taught
themselves enough to do it. Passion is the scarcest resource of all!

On 11/15/2015 1:27 PM, llamaonacid@gmail.com [4D_Cubing] wrote:
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> I had a really cool idea where technology like VR can help people
> visualize a 4D environment using 3D slices. You will see 3D but you
> will also have a way to change your position in the 4th dimension
> using some kind of parameter. The experience could be more submersive
> if a sensory stimuli like temperature or whatnot is added so that user
> associate their position in the 4th dimension with the sensory
> stimuli. This is just a thought experience and perhaps others here
> have thought about this, too. Another way to visualize 4D is of course
> an object like 4D Rubik’s Cube passing through space. Lastly, people
> could kinda of visualize higher dimension with distorted space. For
> instances, having a program where the viewer is inside the surface of
> a hypersphere which would look similar to the surface of a
> hyperdodecahedron if I am not mistaken.