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I can't see how to visualize something that is 4D, can anybody help me? |
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Bebee2Join Date: 2009-05-17
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I won't be here for long, but why do you need quaternions, anyways? |
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I don't, I'm just trying to expand my knowledge incase the need ever arises, or if someone here needs help understanding, then I could explain. |
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Stefan631Join Date: 2010-12-23
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I know that, I wanna do it myself though. |
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Light reflects off of 3d objects and finally hits your eye, then your brain takes this information and creates a 2d image for you to see. You are unable to visualize something 4d because that's like trying to explain the color red to a person that has never had any vision, or trying to explain what a pie smells like to a person who cannot smell. You are unable to see in 4D and haven't seen anything like it so you cannot visualize it.
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Finally someone who knows what their talking about.
So how would visualize it? |
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4D CAN BE VISUALISED! It's a quiet complicated thing but it's used in several subjects. While it isn't true 4D because of us living in a 3D universe it is a 3D representation of a 4D object. |
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Someone made a 4D visualisation in roblox but sadly it's no longer open. Just message the owner and he might open it back up.
Heres the link to place: http://www.roblox.com/4D-Simulator-place?id=164867812 |
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DrFeynmanJoin Date: 2013-08-07
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It's hard to visualize something that you can only simulate, so break it down to make it simpler, imagine if you drew a line, that would be one D, (I got jokes) now, to add another dimension you simply square it. And squaring is basically multiplying it by itself right? So to add the second dimension you square, and if you took geometry you'll know that squaring it proportionally is 4x, so now from that line you have a square, from the on you square that to get a cube etc, so now when you square that cube, what do you get? You get two cubes right, we'll now imagine multiplying them, and you can do that by connecting their vertices.
That is how I taught myself dimensions and I hope that helps you. |
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That made sense up until you said 4D was two cubes connected... |
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DrFeynmanJoin Date: 2013-08-07
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That's where it loses people, here is a what we would call a 4D Cube
http://en.wikipedia (dot) org/wiki/Tesseract |
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Don't even TRY to visualise it. |
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RoflBreadJoin Date: 2009-06-18
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There is no spoon |
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@RoflBread
There is no... spoon...?
I probably laughed harder at that than I should have.
~The herp lerped a derp~ |
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RoflBreadJoin Date: 2009-06-18
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haha :D I meant it as the quote from The Matrix |
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Technically there is a spoon, if only as electrons in some computers.
I mean, how do they know that they are not just AIs in a computer simulation of reality, and the Matrix is not a simulation in the simulation? |
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We're no longer on the topic of rotation are we? |
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