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Seeing in four dimensions

Surfin' Bird — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:56:53 -0800

Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects. Science News writes about it: seeing in four dimensions.

Remember Slow Bob?

kimota — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:40:33 -0800

Anybody remember Slow Bob In The Lower Dimensions? Turns out the short video, once a mainstay of early 90s late-night MTV, was created by one Henry Selick, director of, oh, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Monkeybone, and the forthcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. A lot more on Selick; also, higher quality, alternate format (but slower loading) versions are available here.

Comparing 2.0

Serial Killer Slumber Party — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:43:17 -0800

Sizeasy. A handy visual tool for comparing all manner of different rectangular-shaped things.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

Jimbob — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:38:15 -0800

Imagining the Tenth Dimension (Flash). 10th dimensional physics and string theory don't get any easier than this.

talos — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 05:02:22 -0800

A small world in most dimensions: "University of Washington scientists using gravity measurements to hunt for evidence of dimensions in addition to those already known have found that those dimensions would have to occupy a space smaller than 0.2 millimeter."