dimension digression
A French team of mathemeticians and computer artists has just released a documentary that attempts to help us mere math-mortals transcend the three-dimensional space we are trapped in, and visualize regular polyhedra in 4 dimensions just as a Escher tile-lizard might visualize our 3-D world. The two hours worth of videos are very well done, and also touch on fractals, the Juliet Set, complex numbers and topology. This correspondent was only able to catch a tiny glimpse of 4-space, but it was stunning. It looks like an exquisite world, maybe even more beautiful than ours.
