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If you look at renderings of what 4D objects would look like intersecting 3D space, this is what I imagine for those. Seeing 3D cross sections morphing continuously but inconceivably into each other without being able to even comprehend the true form of the thing you’re seeing glimpses of would be terrifying.

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Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You should look at higher than 4D renderings, like high dimensional hypercubes, as don’t forget non-euclidean geometry

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- Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Is there an interactive visualizer on the web for this kind of thing? Not that a 3D perspective projected into a 2D screen would help much, but being able to fiddle with the shapes might help visualize it in our mind.
  
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  - offspec@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You should check out 4d golf and hyperbolica
    
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kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I believe the idea of eldritch is in being able to comprehent the true form - but only temporarily, since our minds cannot hold that knowledge, only to be left with a frayed hole in our thoughts

But also as people mentioned, there’s some cursed geometries. Hyperbolic and parabolic geometry is interesting (see Hyperholica and Hyperrogue), but things get worse with Nil and Solv

For a more plain existential horror also see Fractal Block World, pretty fun seeing the sense of scale as you shrink yourself ever further revealing detail you couldn’t perceive before, and also the sense of scale, as a tiny room becomes an incomprehensibly vast space you cannot hope to cross in your lifetime.

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