"Dimensions"
Sep. 2nd, 2008 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gusl"Dimensions" seems like a pretty cool movie about visual math, including visualizations of 4D figures.
The first scene starts out easy, then explains that stereographic projections are conformal. The second scene shows that seeing 3D shapes by looking at 2D cross-sections is pretty hard, and proposes stereographic projections instead. I wonder if this is a general lesson.
You can watch it here.
The first scene starts out easy, then explains that stereographic projections are conformal. The second scene shows that seeing 3D shapes by looking at 2D cross-sections is pretty hard, and proposes stereographic projections instead. I wonder if this is a general lesson.
You can watch it here.