tesseract structure?

Question

what makes a tesseract, tesseract? can you name another hyperchoron(?) other than tesseract? can i build it with pieces of paper? charlie epps just introduced them to me...

so this tesseract is only actually a fantasy toy existing in a 4D realm somewhere in the universe, or there really have been a model tesseract that functions just as well as we've seen on the websites? if there is one, then what was it built of?

Answer 1

here is a multiangle drawing of a hypercube.
Beyond the cube it gets very difficult to visualize even the 3d 'shadow'
I don't think that there are names for other hypercubes just 6d hypercube etc.

for real confusion try googling Calabi- Yau manifolds.

Answer 2

The word "tesseract" is just the term applied to an object that has a greater interior volume than an exterior volume.

You can't build one with a piece of paper...erm...well, I suppose you could if you cut the paper into strips and glue them together.
You can draw the 2-dimensional "shadow" of a cube by drawing two squares and then drawing lines joining the matching corners.
Similarly, you can create the 3-dimensional shadow of a tesseract (or hypercube, in this case) by building 2 cubes, 1 inside the other, and then drawing lines between matching pairs of vertices.

Answer 3

No, you cannot build a tesseract out of paper, glass, or anything like that. A tesseract is any object that exists in four spatial dimensions, rather than three. The closest I can come to a tesseract illustration would be a small cube inside a larger cube, attatched by their corresponding vertices.

I know, it makes even MY head spin.

Answer 4

In geometry, the tesseract, called an 8-cellular or known octachoron, is the 4-dimensional analog of the cube. The tesseract is to the cube because of the fact the cube is to the sq.. merely because of the fact the exterior of the cube includes 6 sq. faces, the hypersurface of the tesseract includes 8 cubical cells. The tesseract is between the six convex known 4-polytopes.