I am working on a technical paper that describes a technique I once came up with for rotating objects in four dimensions. And I want my explanation to be really clear.<\/p>\n
I don’t just mean clear to mathematicians. I mean clear to anybody who might be interested in the question of how you might rotate things in four dimensions.<\/p>\n
So I need to find a way to describe what I did that doesn’t just rely on lots of mathematical formulas. The description needs to make visual<\/i> sense. But how do you create an explanation that is visually clear if the “visual” in this sense is four dimensional?<\/p>\n
I’m probably going to need to figure out some really good analogies to lower dimensions — to something that can happen in just two or three dimensions. And I think that approach should work.<\/p>\n
But isn’t it funny that this should be so difficult? Sometimes it’s harder to come up with a clear explanation of something you did than it was to do it in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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