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Understanding the 4D Tesseract
A tesseract is a 4-dimensional cube, also known as an 8-cell or regular octachoron.
- 16 vertices - corners in 4D space
- 32 edges - lines connecting vertices
- 24 faces - 2D squares
- 8 cells - 3D cubes
What you're seeing is a 3D projection of this 4D object, similar to how a 2D shadow is a projection of a 3D object.
The continuous morphing shows rotation through the 4th dimension!
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