A computer technique for displaying n-dimensional hyperobjects

  • Authors:
  • A. Michael Noll

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1967

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Abstract

A digital computer and automatic plotter have been used to generate three-dimensional stereoscopic movies of the three-dimensional parallel and perspective projections of four-dimensional hyperobjects rotating in four-dimensional space. The observed projections and their motions were a direct extension of three-dimensional experience, but no profound "feeling" or insight into the fourth spatial dimension was obtained. The technique can be generalized to n-dimensions and applied to any n-dimensional hyperobject or hypersurface.