2/8/21

So, this was a random idea I had earlier today while drawing with my girlfriend. We were trying to practice shading rainbows in case you were wondering. Okay but here's the idea. 

Visualizing the fourth dimension is always really tricky. Usually it involves some sort of slider that changes the three dimensional projection we see. This is difficult to understand though because it changes how we view the shape.

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyuRLmCphHc&ab_channel=PhysicsVideosbyEugeneKhutoryansky

It's just weird and confusing. It doesn't give you a sense of depth into the forth dimension.

My idea is to utilize another axis of human sight: height, width, depth, and hue. We can detect colors and colors have a natural feeling associated with them. Blue is cold, red is hot. Just with those two colors, the idea of a four dimensional cube being more hot or cold can be gotten across. A slider would change the shades of the object as it travels closer or further away in the forth dimension.

No idea how it would look.

No idea how it would look.

But I do know it sounds really cool.