How to visualize an 11-dimensional cube in 2D

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Hello.
Has anybody ever drawn an 11-dimensional cube (I mean, representation of 11-D cube in 2D)? Or does anybody have a picture of it? Thanks.
 
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Wikipedia's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercube" page has some n-cube representations in 2D, including an 11-cube. It also has an interesting GIF of a 4-cube rotating along the 4th dimension.
 
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I sure would like to see a 4D cube projected onto a 3D screen (or hologram) instead of a representation in 2D. Might possibly make it easier to visualize the 4th spatial dimension. Might not.
 
It won't really help. Your eye projects whatever you see onto 2D, so the only benefit is stereo vision, which you can get from a flat screen using shutter glasses or similar technique.
 
Yeah, so what i want to see is a 4D cube projected onto the head of that shark in Jaws-3D, and I'll don my special glasses and give it a look. And get a better idea of the 5th dimension, uncurled.