B Videos of 4D Die and Sphere

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The discussion centers around animations of a 4D die and sphere created by the original poster. The animations were made using Python and a basic graphics package capable of drawing straight lines and ellipses. Participants express interest in the videos, noting that the hyperdie appears more intuitive than the hypersphere. There is a nostalgic sentiment from one commenter, recalling similar creations from two decades ago. The conversation highlights the intersection of programming and visual representation of complex geometries.
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Exploded hyperdie.
 
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What did you make these animations in?
 
Interesting videos, for me the hyperdie is more intuitive than the hypersphere ...
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Drakkith said:
What did you make these animations in?
Python and some primitive graphics package that can draw only straight lines and ellipses.

It's strange, I feel like I did these 20 years ago.
 
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Seemingly by some mathematical coincidence, a hexagon of sides 2,2,7,7, 11, and 11 can be inscribed in a circle of radius 7. The other day I saw a math problem on line, which they said came from a Polish Olympiad, where you compute the length x of the 3rd side which is the same as the radius, so that the sides of length 2,x, and 11 are inscribed on the arc of a semi-circle. The law of cosines applied twice gives the answer for x of exactly 7, but the arithmetic is so complex that the...
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