Octacube Unveiled

Palomar · 2005-10-20 05:09:49

No good rendering of any 4-dimensional object existed anywhere in the world before the Octacube, either in solid or virtual form, according to Adrian Ocneanu, the Penn State professor of mathematicians who designed the sculpture.

*Math and me... ::sigh:: But would definitely like to see this.

"Although mathematicians 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," Ocneanu explains. "The sculpture was designed with a new method which captures four dimensional symmetry better than anything done before."

Sounds groovy to me, baby.

Ms. Anderson's comments at the end of the article are interesting. Lady, I am trying to appreciate mathematics...all my life.

--Cindy