what the 3d representation of a tesseract is actually showing

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what the 3d representation of a tesseract is actually showing

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Here’s a really good blog post that demonstrates how it works: https://ciechanow.ski/tesseract/

If you take a 3D cube and you project it onto a plane (like by casting a shadow), you’ll get a 2D image. The 3D representation is the same idea, but projecing a 4D object into a 3D space.