4D Toys

Cool, but not worth the price. Give it a go though if you don't understand the 4th dimension.

Worth it. Really helps to try to imagine the concept of 4 dimensional thinking, what it would look like for us if a 4D being was playing with us and trying to explain what they see. It doesn't make sense, in the way that we can never truly truly picture it, but at the same time it does. They walk you through the first 3 dimensions 1 at a time first, before getting to 4D. Showing how if a 2 dimensional creature was playing with you and you kept trying to move a 3D ball through there world, they could only ever see 1 slice of the 3D object, a circle, in varying sizes as you push it through and back again, they'd even see it pop in and out of existence as your 3D sphere moved beyond their 2 dimensional plain. In 4 dimension, it's the same concept 1 level higher. A 4D shape would comprise many 3D layers all combined yet somehow not overlapping in the way we think they would. Just like a bunch of individual circle layers make up a sphere, a bunch of 3D spheres or cubes make up a single 3D hypersphere or tesseract. So if a 4D creature moved the 4D object through our 3D world to try and show you it, and explain it to you, all you'd ever see is one individual slice or 3D view of the object, growing and shrinking as it moves through our 3D plain, and disappearing and reappearing in our perspective as it moves beyond and back into our plain. That makes sense, and also doesn't all at the same time. In the way a 2D creature could TRY to understand what all those circles put together could look like, but can't completely, because it just can't imagine beyond its 2D world. It tries, but never FULLY gets it. In the same way our brain can't fully picture a whole bunch of 3D versions of a sphere somehow making a similar higher level structure. But we can get close. I appreciate this level of thinking. Makes me wonder if some things in our world are our interpretation of 4D objects. Such as black holes, or perhaps, the supposed glowing orbs spotted by pilots in airspace (or the foo fighters seen in WW2) could they be 3D "parts" or a 4D object snaking through more than 1 3D dimension, like a 4D snake? Could a black hole be so heavy its poking straight into another dimension? Cold dark matter be the gravitational influence of other nearby dimensions/realities only able to interact with us gravitationally? Could dark energy be a leak of space or energy from a 4th dimension? Is the Combine on the other side ready to invade after we break through to another dimension in Area 51? One can only speculate.

I love that this exists, I feel like this mechanic could be turned into a Portal-style game somehow

This game really needs a volume view like in 4d golf. That would be so cool

It helped me understand the fourth dimension a lot clearer. :steamthumbsup:

SO FUN AND INTERESTING

Does not feature a "stack" feature to see a 4d object at each point in 4d space at once Also requires you to play a certain amount of time before showing a klein bottle