What a Tesseract (4D Cube) Looks Like

You son of a bitch.

My wife is not a bitch, nor is Loki the son of one!

but Loki is adopted

Don't tell him now, wait until the movie's half-way through!

SO DEEP

An n dimensional object can be viewed as a projection onto an n - 1 dimensional canvas.

you can't view a 2D object on a 1D canvas
for a 1D canvas doesn't exist

Math disagrees with you. You can view a three dimensional object as projection onto a 2D canvas. I suppose I should add the stipulation of 'n>2', but I'm not wrong.

i feel insulted but impressed

It's a 2D representation(because it's flat on your screen) of what a 4D cube would look like from a 3D inhabitant's perspective.
Just as a sphere passing through a plane would like like a circle that expands and contracts yet would also be viewed as a line that expands and contracts to 'inhabitants' of this 2D flatland.
This GIF shows the tesseract passing through itself because in those sections where it must reorient, it is not passing through itself, just passing by itself in a fourth dimension, but we cannot see that fourth dimension, so this is how the 4D cube would apear in our 3D world(theoretically).

TL;DR - it's still 4D, just what 4D looks like in a 3D world.

thank you for not making me type that out myself.

Three dimensional shadow.

ON A 2D SCREEN !!!11111ELEVEN11!!!!!

i wish they would finally make a new one. i loved all of them

I've seen clips on youtube, other then that I havn't found a single trace of them on the interwebz... thought I was just imagining them

I have all three on my comp. I agree with doimas on the fact that #s 2 and 3 were pretty bad compared to #1, but I did enjoy the twist at the end of #3

What are "the cube movies"?

"Cube" "Hypercube" and "Cube 3"

What were they about?

It's much better than saw, in my opinion. Inb4 shitstorm.

That's a good way to put it

Another explanation -

A square has 1D lines for sides.
A cube has 2D squares for sides.
A hypercube has 3D cubes for sides.

Someone who understands. Thumb for you

thats the idea. Every angle in that cube is 90 degrees. shitty 3D perception can only make us see 3D objects

Here is another one i made

Oh! By the way, that's just the 2D representation of the 3D shadow of a 4D object.

Oh! By the way, that's just the 2D representation of the 3D shadow of a 4D object.

Oh! By the way, that's just the 2D representation of the 3D shadow of a 4D object.

That comment was so dumb I don't even know where to begin, but I guess I'll try to educate you:
1. This is a hypothesized four-dimensional shape. It's a mathematical concept, and completely unrelated to physics. The fact that you're too dumb to understand that doesn't invalidate it's correctness
2. In our current space-time model, time is indeed the fourth dimension, this does not mean it's not a special dimension. The "flow" of time is related to our perception of the universe moving from a high entropy state to a low entropy state
3. This is, in fact, a 2 dimensional representation of a 3-dimensional shadow of a rotating four dimensional hypercube or "tesseract" It is not four dimensional because humans cannot comprehend four dimensions
TL;DR don't talk shit if you don't know shit

TO ANYONE READING THIS THREAD:
I'd like you to watch this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjsgoXvnStY
It explains the fourth dimension as time, and also explains all dimension above it, up to the 11th.
THIS IS NOT WHAT IS SHOWN IN THE CONTENT!!!
The content describes the fourth dimension of space.

A dimension is anything that can be measured.
What the content describes is a cube in the fourth dimension of space.
If you imagine dimension number 0.
This would be something which cannot be measured; a point. (I know you can measure x and y values, but we imaging nothing else to compare it's position to.
If we copy that dot and paste it, say 1 meter, besides it, and draw a line between them, we get the first dimension; length.
If we copy/paste that line 1 meter to it's side, we get a square and the second dimension; width.
If we copy/paste that square 1 meter upwards, we get a cube; the third dimension.
Now, if we imagine that we copy/paste that cube 1 meter to an imaginary direction, and connect all points of the cube (where lines meet) to all points of this new cube, with all lines being equal length, we create something that cannot possibly exist in the third dimension of space. However, we can recreate this fourth dimension on our computer. And using a 4D projection program we can create the "shadow" of the fourth dimensional cube. (This is the .gif above, in the content)
We can compare it to holding up a straw-cube under a light, to create a shadow on a board. Although it, to us, looks like a cube, it would look like random lines to anything observing it in only two dimensions, just like this looks like random lines to us. But if we were to rotate our straw-cube, the lines of the shadow would change length. This would be unexplainable by someone who have lived all their life in the second dimension, just like we couldn't explain why the straws of our 4D straw-cube seemingly, but not actually, changes length.

Above 4th dimension goes alternate universe and alternate time dimensions.

I wasn't aware there were more than 4 dimensions

There are around 11 that we can make sense of right now I think. It's all just theoretical though