Thread: "Visualizing 4D Environment"

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The best thing to do with these sorts of ideas is to try them out for
yourself. Several members here have become quite good programmers simply
because they had a passion to see something in particular and taught
themselves enough to do it. Passion is the scarcest resource of all!

On 11/15/2015 1:27 PM, llamaonacid@gmail.com [4D_Cubing] wrote:
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> I had a really cool idea where technology like VR can help people
> visualize a 4D environment using 3D slices. You will see 3D but you
> will also have a way to change your position in the 4th dimension
> using some kind of parameter. The experience could be more submersive
> if a sensory stimuli like temperature or whatnot is added so that user
> associate their position in the 4th dimension with the sensory
> stimuli. This is just a thought experience and perhaps others here
> have thought about this, too. Another way to visualize 4D is of course
> an object like 4D Rubik's Cube passing through space. Lastly, people
> could kinda of visualize higher dimension with distorted space. For
> instances, having a program where the viewer is inside the surface of
> a hypersphere which would look similar to the surface of a
> hyperdodecahedron if I am not mistaken.


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The best thing to do with these sorts of ideas is to try them out
for yourself. Several members here have become quite good
programmers simply because they had a passion to see something in
particular and taught themselves enough to do it. Passion is the
scarcest resource of all!

I had a really cool idea where technology like VR can help people
visualize a 4D environment using 3D slices. You will see 3D but
you will also have a way to change your position in the 4th
dimension using some kind of parameter. The experience could be
more submersive if a sensory stimuli like temperature or whatnot
is added so that user associate their position in the 4th
dimension with the sensory stimuli. This is just a thought
experience and perhaps others here have thought about this, too.
Another way to visualize 4D is of course an object like 4D Rubik's
Cube passing through space. Lastly, people could kinda of
visualize higher dimension with distorted space. For instances,
having a program where the viewer is inside the surface of a
hypersphere which would look similar to the surface of a
hyperdodecahedron if I am not mistaken.