We are just used to project a cube in a way that prevents to see its linearly-spatial configuration (a projection messes up lengths), but if you preserve these lengths and "flatten" them instead, a cube will flatten out to a sort of a shuriken.
We are just used to project a cube in a way that prevents to see its linearly-spatial configuration (a projection messes up lengths), but if you preserve these lengths and "flatten" them instead, a cube will flatten out to a sort of a shuriken.
Yup. Even a regular 3D cube (and 2D square) has concave faces if you're viewing it from a polar perspective. As I stand in the center of the cube, measuring distances from me to the surface, I'll see that measurement follow a concave pattern.
Yeah, I know that's not the definition of concavity or whatever, but when relating a sphere to a cube, and trying to get an intuition of higher-dimensional spaces, I think it helps to look at it from the sphere's perspective rather than a Cartesian one.