Thread: "Miegakure, a 4D puzzle-platforming game"

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I saw this puzzle/game demoed by the inventor/developer Marc Ten Bosch
at a puzzle party a while back. Here are some clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhbUvoxjxIg - A sample of what it looks
like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhBoY6s-Fhw - Showing how to link 2
rings without cutting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_4L3FtClxI - The inventor/developer
describes his creation.

At the time he said that he had been working on it full time for some 3
years I think. I can't imagine working on something like that alone and
in secret and for so long. I really admire his dedication, and of course
the results are visually amazing. What impressed me the most was his
implementation of 4D dice. You can drop a giant convex polychoron and it
will use realistic 4D physics to simulate it slowly bouncing and rolling
and changing shape as parts of roll in and out of your current 3D view,
eventually coming to rest.

You can find more videos by searching for "Miegakure" on YouTube though
I couldn't find one with a 4D die.

There is a Wikipedia page for it here
.

Enjoy!
-Melinda

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I saw this puzzle/game demoed by the inventor/developer Marc Ten
Bosch at a puzzle party a while back. Here are some clips:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhbUvoxjxIg - A sample of what it
looks like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhBoY6s-Fhw - Showing how to link 2
rings without cutting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_4L3FtClxI - The inventor/developer
describes his creation.



At the time he said that he had been working on it full time for
some 3 years I think. I can't imagine working on something like that
alone and in secret and for so long. I really admire his dedication,
and of course the results are visually amazing. What impressed me
the most was his implementation of 4D dice. You can drop a giant
convex polychoron and it will use realistic 4D physics to simulate
it slowly bouncing and rolling and changing shape as parts of roll
in and out of your current 3D view,  eventually coming to rest.



You can find more videos by searching for "Miegakure" on YouTube
though I couldn't find one with a 4D die.



There is a Wikipedia page for it href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miegakure">here.



Enjoy!

-Melinda




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Right! Miegakure -- I've been looking forward to it ever since its first
public announcement a few years ago. (And it got a mention in
http://xkcd.com/721/ which probably didn't hurt.)

My only quibble is that only a "slice" of the 4D world is visible on screen
at a time. Of all the possible ways to project 4D down to 3D, that one is
the most "lossy" (hiding all but an infinitely thin subspace from view).
But I suppose since his game world is so detailed, showing more than a 3D
slice at a time would get extremely cluttered.

What I'd really love to see is a 4D
"Portal"-like
set of training chambers, maybe using Oculus Rift for stereo depth cueing.
: )

Some other noble attempts:

http://cnslab.ss.uci.edu/fourdim/ (also shows only a slice of 4D space
at a time)

www.mushware.com 's Adanaxis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9U-pmCpa=
1DE
(nifty fish-eye lens effect for the 4D rotations, among other things,
is described in a collection of documents on 4D
rendering
)

http://www.urticator.net/maze/ (not as lossy in its projection, but only
features wireframe models)




On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Melinda Green wr=
ote:

>
>
> I saw this puzzle/game demoed by the inventor/developer Marc Ten Bosch at
> a puzzle party a while back. Here are some clips:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DKhbUvoxjxIg - A sample of what it looks
> like.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DGhBoY6s-Fhw - Showing how to link 2 rin=
gs
> without cutting.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dw_4L3FtClxI - The inventor/developer
> describes his creation.
>
> At the time he said that he had been working on it full time for some 3
> years I think. I can't imagine working on something like that alone and i=
n
> secret and for so long. I really admire his dedication, and of course the
> results are visually amazing. What impressed me the most was his
> implementation of 4D dice. You can drop a giant convex polychoron and it
> will use realistic 4D physics to simulate it slowly bouncing and rolling
> and changing shape as parts of roll in and out of your current 3D view,
> eventually coming to rest.
>
> You can find more videos by searching for "Miegakure" on YouTube though I
> couldn't find one with a 4D die.
>
> There is a Wikipedia page for it herekure>
> .
>
> Enjoy!
> -Melinda
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