Portal: Tesseract folding demo by Shmitz

[swangooo]

awesome vid its amazing how portal physics can do that. But I guess the basic theme is portaling through the 4th dimension.

[forinner]

wouldn't this mean there cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes within cubes .........????

[Oxxyjoe]

@forinner Well, in fact (To the question Wouldn't this mean there are cubes within cubes ad infinitum) In terms of calculus... if a meter is divided in half, and then that half is then divided in half, and then that half is then divided in half... what is the "Last smallest amount?" Truly, based on a faith simply in Infinity, it does go on forever, both to the small and to the large. But this is merely abstract thinking, the truth itself in fact has no "real" cubes.

[EkkuZakku]

This makes a lot of sense lol, I'm slowly catching on XD

[omgtkseth]

revised examples...

Architects designed a new house that can solve overpopulation but its impossible to build cuz they cant build tesseract rooms, only cubic rooms.

Physicist designs new universe model but its impossible to test because it requires adding and subtracting infinites in all 11 dimensions...

[omgtkseth]

Its funny how most math is so constructivist, ontological and noumenonic, yet it is the primary basis for all 'hard' sciences. Just as tesseracts are a mechanic formulation of parameters that dont exist in our universe, many of the non experimental physic theories rely on such formulations that allow for mechanics to work theoretically-mathematically, yet cant be interpreted mechanically in our own universe. eg, Architects designed a new house but its impossible to build the tesseract rooms.

[mariosonicfan2010]

thinking*

[mariosonicfan2010]

now your think with tesseracts!

[aelijahe]

This is badass. You sir, are to be congratulated on your fine work.

[entehrend]

This was cool

[BRyanS72]

So, you are trying to show me a 4 dimensional object folded from a 3 dimensional object on a 2 dimensional computer screen? well then...

[Ubern33b]

It should be folding into itself :)

[Deiphiz]

A 4D object rendered in 3D, displayed on a 2D screen 0_0

[Vorick6]

wut game

[AndromedaChao2]

In four dimensions, a room would be a cube within a cube with cube-shaped walls wouldn't it? Just like in our 3-space a room with square walls would be a square witin a square when viewed face on

[JDzTH3B3ST3V4R]

can you give us the link in the description please?

[fedeottanta]

Where I can download the Game level??

[smatteringofapplause]

Easy to describe actually.

Tesseract is to a cube as a cube is to a square.

[IndigoCat17]

what is this game???

[Ravsta007]

I don't mean to over analyse what you have done, but I was thinking about the second part of the video where the 8 cubes were folded into a Tesseract. It is an impressive video so good job, but the as far as I am aware the Tesseract shape is only a three dimensional shadow of the fourth dimensional "shape" of the 8 folded cubes that we cannot perceive? where the video made it look as though the 8 cubes fold into a Tesseract

[kdeala21]

This looks like it would be a cool video game.

Here's a challenge for you guy's. How does a circular object look in the 4-D?

[nolsmtm]

its a torus, kind of like a 4d donut, theres some cool vids of torus rotations and cross section fly throughs around

[8916420]

how did u make this?

[peletonkambing]

Cool, tesseracts are an interesting theory.

[WackoMcGoose]

The fourth spatial dimension: Yet another thing I will never understand. But it looks like you made a great model of a 4-D cube. Now if only I could wrap my mind around why that isn't just consided a fancy 3-D solid...

BTW, could you publish that map somewhere, like myApertureLabs or ThinkingWithPortals?

[tiggxtreme]

It's impossible to imagine, but think of it this way: 1 point-2 points=line-4 lines=square-6 squares=cube. So 4D: 8 cubes=tesseract. In other words, it's a cube made up of 8 cubes with all sides of equal length and all angles right angles. We do not have enough directions in 3D to represent this, so we just fold 8 six-faced shapes into a large cube. Just like a 2D being can only see a 2D slice of a 3D object, we can only see a 3D slice of a 4D object. We see different slices as it moves/rotates.

[BeamSurfer]

@tiggxtreme it's not impossible. nothing is impossible, there is no slice, there's the thing that is there and we know.

[BeamSurfer]

@tiggxtreme That slice is called the Present, the "Now" is a slice.

[fluence51]

@BeamSurfer Ah, yeah, but how long does the present last then? Is there an "actual" present?

[reapercussions]

What we call a tesseract actually is three-dimensional, because that's the only way we can visualize it. It's impossible for us to think or see in four-dimensions, just as it would be impossible for a 2 dimensional creature to picture what we would look like.

[PrivChurch]

The way I like to think about it is that it's simply a representation of the way we see it from one perspective. Just like how if you drew a cube on a piece of paper, you can see the cube, but you can't move inside of it, or really prove that it's not just two squares connected funny. I don't really have the 4th dimension completely nailed down, but that's how I see it.

[EmergencyStopFilms]

that was pretty pimped out. well done.

[E1025]

Very nice and well made but I don't understand why you made it. How did you even make this?

[ErrorAsh]

Very nice work!

[iamafractal]

kudos kudos, shmitz. leave it to you to make a portal map just as if you were doodling on a napkin, heh.