::MERCATOR, EAT YOUR HEART OUT::Ever since reading
Flatland in ninth-grade geometry, I've always been into the idea of representing fourth-dimensional objects in three dimensions -- making a 3-D "shadow" of a 4-D shape. Well, Adrian Ocneanu at Penn State has done it. It's mirrored, it's a representation of an octacube, and it's
beautiful:
Link.
Still can't get your head around it? Here's a
nifty Flash animation of this projection of an octacube.
(via
BoingBoing)