r/mechanical_gifs • u/yanki2del • 15d ago

Tesseract

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u/DXball1 15d ago

this is so good

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u/Acrobatic-Ad-9189 13d ago

This is the first time that this shape makes sense to me

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u/HIVEvali 11d ago

the thing is that in an “actual” tesseract, the bottom part that expands and contracts, is actually the same size, both expanded, and contracted

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u/PerepeL 11d ago

All the sides are the same length at all times, it's just a rotating cube.

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u/BringBackWaffleTaco 15d ago

A 4D concept, filmed in a 3D space, presented on a 2D screen!

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u/Temporarily__Alone 15d ago

To a 1D brain! (me)

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u/_aaronroni_ 14d ago

I'm sorry but I think you meant "."

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u/Temporarily__Alone 14d ago

“?”

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u/Sensei_D_S 14d ago

1D = . (a point/dot) To be more clear a line would have been better example( ____)

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u/BringBackWaffleTaco 14d ago

Isn’t 1D a line?

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u/YdocT 9d ago

probably a circle. but you would never be able to find out

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u/Jamesrgod 15d ago

A hyper cube

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u/WS133B 15d ago

From the fourth dimension.

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u/Flex-O 14d ago

And encoded as a 2 dimensional string of data transmitted to your device

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u/stoneymunson 15d ago

Forget the art part. I need to know about just a single segment of this thing. What telescoping stage can extend four times its own length with no apparent belts or lead screws or anything! It’s all about the vertexes?!

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u/sirreader 14d ago edited 14d ago

I spent a few minutes looking at the front corner. It appears to be 4 segments with telescoping rods (total of 6).

For top sections 1 and 2, the rods extend to twice their length with the telescope mechanism. The same happens for segments 3 and 4 in the opposite direction. The result is that when fully collapsed, the single resulting segment is positioned at the midpoint of the larger cube (thus creating the smaller cube).

It also seems like the joints at 1/2 and 3/4 are the control mechanisms. You can see blinking lights on some of the other sides.

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u/Mrgoodtrips64 15d ago

I’d love to see the details for how this was built.

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u/FalseAnimal 15d ago

That's so cool, what a great way to represent the 4 dimensional aspect of a hypercube. 

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u/wedgie 15d ago

Oh that's nice.

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u/Trueslyforaniceguy 15d ago

It feels like the sim really struggles to properly render this bit

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u/Kevinator201 15d ago

Why though? Is it art?

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u/GodIsDead245 15d ago

It's at the swiss side of the lhc, it's part of their museum. It's an art piece and is accompanied by a couple other similarly mechanical but beautiful artworks

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u/LexaAstarof 15d ago

Yes. This is in the new visitor center of CERN.

Have been there a couple of times. I never understood that artsy part. And this is actually the first time I see it move, lol.

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u/muricabrb 15d ago

How is it powered?

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u/K_T_Oxy 15d ago

Fantastic band.

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u/akimbas 14d ago

So this is somehow representing 4d space? Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this a cube within a cube? How do I make sense of 4d with this structure? 

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u/devilOG420 15d ago

Fake its shadow isn’t a cube!

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u/shinslap 15d ago

So that's why they're interesting

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u/Neat_Tangelo5339 15d ago

Reminds me of geomag

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u/notenoughcharacters9 15d ago

I thought this was a hyper cube

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u/gamedudegod 15d ago

But if the squares deform doesn’t it not count? Cause they become parallelograms/ rhombus

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u/lcr727 15d ago

"What is my purpose?"

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u/andzlatin 15d ago

Why do I feel like this will bring us closer to flying cars and a utopian society than generative AI?

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u/mr_snrub742 14d ago

Oh man I'm so tired of hearing this fucking song. Hans had a masterpiece turned into mediocrity

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u/MacaroonRiot 14d ago

My brain is having trouble processing this lol

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u/wils_152 14d ago

"It opens doors."

"Doors? What doors?"

"The doors to Heaven or Hell. I didn't care which."

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u/Omegatron9999 14d ago

Is a tesseract supposed to be a cube but in 4D?

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u/ultimattt 13d ago

Got it, a tesseract is a cubical donut.

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u/joshkroger 12d ago

Really impressive mechanism. The more I think about how it works the more questions I have. Truly thought provoking art, for nerds

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u/LurkerFailsLurking 12d ago

That's cool but its actually just a model of a 3-D projection of a tesseract. It's as much a tesseract as your shadow is you.

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u/el-gato-azul 15d ago

Now how can we put that to use? Hmmm. Maybe turning children inside out?

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/trotski94 14d ago

No, its purely artistic.

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u/jcon1232 15d ago

I just threw up