31/05/2015

5. Tesseract

In geometry, the tesseract is the four-dimensional analog of the cube.

Hypercube is composed of:

8 Cells (or Cubes),  24 Faces,  32 Edges  and  16 Vertices

and it meets the extension of Euler's formula:   

Faces + Vertices = Cells + Edges       


There may be different types of representations; such as this where all edges have the same length:
 


 

Or a central projection:
 

 


In four dimensions, the hypercube is also called tesseract (from the greek τέσσερις ακτίνες or "four beams").
 
A famous example of a tesseract is the Arch of La Défense, a monument located in the modern district of La Défense in Paris. The official name in French is Grande Arche de la Fraternité.

 

 

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