Hypercube Animation


	Hypercube Animation

Bluephoenix4

12-12-2007 10:18 AM

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animation, hypercube, tesseract, physics, geometry, dimensions, science

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12-12-2007 11:15 PM

Laustere

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No, really. I can't get my head around it at all but it sounds neat.

12-13-2007 2:54 PM

gazco

I really don't get it, but I want to!

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