Yash Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 I read somewhere that a tesseract is to a cube what a cube is to a square. What exactly does that mean? Does this thing include a 4th dimension in some way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfmotat Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 My understanding is that tesseract images are "shadows" of 4D cubes in 3D space. Similar to how the following is a shadow of a 3D cube projected onto a 2D space, i.e. your computer screen or a piece of paper. Tesseract shadows, like the one below, are commonly rotated over time to illustrate its 3D properties, due to the limited nature of having a 2D space to draw on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematic Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract See above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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