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I exchanged a couple emails with him years ago, as I wanted to share an interface I designed for viewing 4D (or higher) geometry. It runs in the browser and you can try it at http://transdimensional.xyz

The each column is a slider with previews of how it will look when the slider is rotated

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That’s a beautiful bit of UI design that almost manages to make the intrinsically unintuitive feel actually intuitive. I doff my hat to you.

Some [optional] labels for axis and a way to reset would be nice.

Any labels you can assign are arbitrary, there's no intrinsic height or width etc.

I met him at Dynamicland last year and he was pretty excited about developing the game, but I guess things slowed down? I hope it still gets developed, I love the idea of the game.

Am I understanding correctly that this visualizes a 3d cross-section of a 4d cube? Is so, it might be interesting to put together a tool that shows a 2d cross-section of a 3d cube so people get the intuition.

This is cool, but playing with it is making me feel ill.

I don't suffer from non-VR motion sickness to a significant degree, but there's something about this that gives a really weird sick feeling.

It's similar but different to the AI weird dream loop fractal video things, or AI-generated pictures of unrecognizable objects.

"Unease" doesn't quite do the feeling justice.

Yall may enjoy this https://youtu.be/g5XWNwBJWeY another way of doing 4D rotation (using VR)

That very cool. What does each slider represents?

Each is a different axis of rotation. You have considerably more of them in 4D!

Why does only the right-most slider not seem to rotate, but instead changes the shape? (Very cool btw)

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