The Hypercube

Virtual Chaos

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Visualizing the way the interactions of virtual chaos take place in ten dimensions is enough to melt just about anybody's brain. So in the interest of molten gray matter, we are proud to present: "The Rotation of a Hypercube" for your consideration.

Written by John Hamm, and accelerated by Austin David, this little DOS program will graphically display some very complicated mathematical concepts in a way that is easy to follow, and cool to look at. Not bad for a couple of high school kids!

Keep in mind however, that a Hypercube is a four dimensional object, and as such what is depicted is actually just it's shadow. Pressing the numbers 1 through 6 will allow you to examine any of the six axis' that a four dimensional object is free to rotate around, or you can just watch it cycle. The Zen of virtual chaos is very closely related to this object, it is a hyper-sphere.

So here it is: hyper.exe. Save it as a file, run it, and contemplate.

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