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Tesseract facts for kids

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8-cell-simple
3D projection of a tesseract, rotating along one axis
Stereographic polytope 8cell

A tesseract is a 4D object with eight cells; each cell is a cube. The tesseract is one of the six convex regular 4-polytopes. Unlike three-dimensional objects which rotate on both an axis and a plane (the plane being of length and width and the axis being of the leftover dimension, height), a tesseract rotates on two planes, one made up of length and width, and one made up of height and the fourth dimension. It is the simplest hypercube.

Images for kids

  • 8-cell net

    The Dali cross, a net of a tesseract

  • From Point to Tesseract (Looped Version)

    An animation of the shifting in dimensions

  • 8-cell

    A 3D projection of an 8-cell performing a simple rotation about a plane which bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom

  • Orthogonal projection envelopes tesseract

    Parallel projection envelopes of the tesseract (each cell is drawn with different color faces, inverted cells are undrawn)

  • Hypercube Disarmed

    3D Crossed Eyes (no glasses needed) Disarmed Hypercube

  • Orthogonal Tesseract Gif

    Animation showing each individual cube within the B4 Coxeter plane projection of the tesseract.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Teseracto para niños

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