Sometimes you think on an idea so hard and for so long that the ‘verse can’t help but send you what you need.
The sculpture, which measures about six feet in every direction, presents the three-dimensional “shadow” of a four-dimensional solid object. “Although mathematicians can work with a fourth dimension abstractly by adding a fourth coordinate to the three that we use to describe a point in space, a fourth spatial dimension is difficult to visualize,” Ocneanu explains. “The sculpture was designed with a new method which captures four dimensional symmetry better than anything done before.”
There’s a flash video of the thing here.
(via warren ellis)
