{"id":3766,"date":"2005-10-26T12:36:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T12:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2009-01-15T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:54:10","slug":"the-octacube-delves-into-the-fourth-dimension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/the-octacube-delves-into-the-fourth-dimension\/","title":{"rendered":"The Octacube Delves into the Fourth Dimension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you think on an idea so hard and for so long that the &#8216;verse can&#8217;t help but send you what you need.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.psu.edu\/alert\/Math10-2005.htm\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"4dimensionalsculpture-small.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/4dimensionalsculpture-small.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"503\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/threshold\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Threshold<\/a> must be notified<\/div>\n<div class=\"blocked\">The sculpture, which measures about six feet in every direction, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.psu.edu\/alert\/Math10-2005.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">presents the three-dimensional &#8220;shadow&#8221; of a four-dimensional solid object<\/a>. &#8220;Although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.psu.edu\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">mathematicians<\/a> 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,&#8221; Ocneanu explains. &#8220;The sculpture was designed with a new method which captures four dimensional symmetry better than anything done before.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a flash video of the thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.psu.edu\/alert\/videoclips\/octacube%20anim.swf\" class=\"external external_icon\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=1383\" class=\"external external_icon\">warren ellis<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you think on an idea so hard and for so long that the &#8216;verse can&#8217;t help but send you what you need. Threshold must be notified The sculpture, which measures about six feet in every direction, presents the three-dimensional &#8220;shadow&#8221; of a four-dimensional solid object. &#8220;Although mathematicians can work with a fourth dimension abstractly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[26,78],"class_list":["post-3766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-art","tag-flash","tag-timey-wimey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}