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Seminars - Abstract
Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering
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Getting to the Fourth Dimension |
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Raymond Matthews |
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16-05-2005 |
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3:00 PM
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Hooper LT |
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Higher-dimensional space has been popular topic since the mid-nineteenth century. In the current context 'higher' means greater than three. Mathematicians and physicists have used this concept freely when useful, without concern for the limitation of human visual perception to three dimensions. Other writers have been interested in the possibility of expanding perceptual ability to include higher dimensions.
In the same way that three dimensions can be projected into two dimensions, as in computer games, so four dimensions can be projected into three dimensions. Programs to do this have existed since the 1970s. There are examples on the internet. I propose to produce a simple puzzle game involving four-dimensional geometry, and test subjects' ability to solve it. |
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