Globe4D

This interactive, four-dimensional globe is a projection of the Earth's surface on a physical sphere. It shows the historical movement of the continents as its main feature, but it is also capable of displaying all kinds of other geographical data such as climate changes, plant growth, radiation, rainfall, forest fires, seasons, airplane routes, and more.

Globe4D extends the functionality of traditional globes found in many households and schools by allowing people of all ages and backgrounds to learn in an entertaining way about how a planet changes over time.

This simple but highly educational, entertaining multi-user device for globe viewing is designed to help people, especially kids, learn about the earth and realize in a playful and tactile manner how it has changed and still changes over time.

Globe4D's main innovation is its method of mapping spatio-temporal geographic data on a physical sphere. It is not a flat representation of a changing planet but a real physical globe featuring hands-on interactivity.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• globe
• education
• sphere
• 4d
• time
• travel

[mmfwclfromhatchetman]

haha nice

but the 4th dimension isn't time

[globe4d]

That's right: the 4th 'dimension' can be anything: time, temperature, waterlevel, etc.

[TheSpagezzinator]

@globe4d yee uh still wrong mate

[dochertyryan]

@globe4d Yep. The spatial 4d is however physical, like 3d and all others before 3d.

[Yorgarazgreece]

@mmfwclfromhatchetman no one knows. we can only see the 3D shadow of a 4d object. maybe it is time

[kllr101]

@Eschatus2 Science fiction?

[DiarrheaCasino]

@bordjukov its not physics its geometry

[Dracopol]

Awesome. It vividly shows that India used to be an island until it crashed into Asia, that Europe used to be scattered islands, and that French waiters have been rude and surly clear back to when they were single-celled organisms...

[bordjukov]

@globe4d bull%$#@! who taught you physics?

[HoldenEW]

where did you find this?