Full Color Illustrations of the Fourth Dimension, Volume 1: Tesseracts and Glomes Contributor(s): McMullen, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442141638 ISBN-13: 9781442141636 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.39 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Geometry - Non-euclidean |
Physical Information: 0.14" H x 7.96" W x 10.02" (0.31 lbs) 42 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: These full-color illustrations on 8"x10" pages are at once aesthetically captivating and instructive. Each page consists of colorful images of tesseracts (4D hypercubes) or glomes (4D hyperspheres) with a paragraph caption describing the figures at the bottom. Color is used effectively to show how to visualize the features of tesseracts and glomes, how to draw tesseracts in perspective, how a tesseract unfolds, how the features of tesseracts and glomes change as they rotate, how to find the intersection of a tesseract or glome with a hyperplane, how hyperspherical coordinates are defined, how to understand hypercompass directions, and how to draw longitudes, hyperlatitudes, and latitudes. Rectangular hyperboxes and a hyperellipsoid are also shown. Subsequent volumes of this series will build upon these fundamental 4D objects to help you imagine features of a 4D world such as a hyperchair, a hypercross, a hyperpyramid, a hyperhouse, crystal structures, and simple hypermachines. |