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Computer Recreations

A program for rotating hypercubes induces four-dimensional dementia

by A. K. Dewdney

Table of Contents

  1. A Case of Four-Dimensional Dementia
  2. The Fourth-Dimension
  3. Images of the Fourth Dimension
  4. Dimensional Analogies
  5. The HYPERCUBE Program
  6. Dementia in More Dimensions

Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Copyright © 1986 by The Scientific American. All rights reserved.

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