The Fourth Dimension

Now I understand why Dali painted the hypercube the way he did. I had a poster print of that painting on my wall 45 years ago, but wound up studying language instead of math. I’m still a math geek in my spare time, but for some reason I’d never gotten around to trying to manipulate a hypercube in 3 dimensions. I would say my education is complete, but it never will be, of course. But thanks for filling in this part—I’ll be seeing how many odd 3-D shadows I can make from this. And wondering about representing five dimensions in three. Since, after all, this 3-D tesseract is only really projected onto my 2-D iPad screen, so both the third and fourth dimensions are illusions of perspective.

This is a Masterpiece period. Let me explain why. First… I’m an idiot, so with that out of the way. Let me explain how this is perfect for the idiot. This elegantly put together app, mixes interaction with text in a non cluttered way. A wonderful neat small package where the text & graphics “are not fighting” for screen real estate… and because of this master design from their design team, we the user benefit from: • easy to interact with UI • instant retention of knowledge presented • smooth user experience = UX meaning click this, to do that • mini sentence structure, means instant processing of knowledge This brilliant & sympathetic design team of this app… MADE SURE, there are no more than four sentences on the screen at any given time. (using iPad Pro 12.9) so basically small bite size “super digestible” chunks, not a wall of text assaulting your visuals. All graphics are interactive, you can rotate.. etc. I hope this studio makes more of these higher topics or even basic physics topics presented in this same style. I WILL BUY EVERYTHING this studio puts out, if this bar they set in quality, remains the same. This studio has just become one of my favorite studios. For any ux and ui designers or sci fi story writers, or sci fi game designers. You need to buy this. For the story writers the concepts are as perfect as we can get to demonstrating such complex material. For UI & UX designers… this app is a MASTERCLASS in design. Study it! Everyone else, stop reading and go buy already! DEVS & DESIGN TEAM: Please.. give me more. I have money for you.

I have been a math geek since I was four years old (Eisenhower, the last great, or even good, Republican president was still in his first term) and I became an amateur topologist and horologist not long after. This app not only makes an extremely obtuse and non intuitive topic accessible, it also manages to make it enjoyable and...dare I say it: FUN ! I have shared this app with my nephews and nieces AND their children (some as young as 5 years old) and it has always elicited excitement, curiosity and many, many questions. It will be interesting to see how their very early exposure to easily accessible and yet extremely abstract concepts affects their abilities to process and assimilate abstract and obtuse ideas going forward (or, in this instance, rotating outward and folding up...). I do, however, have one suggestion...although the two pages where you ‘hack’ the optic chiasma (meld two images into a “3-D” facsimile) work fine on my iPhone and my iPad Mini they don’t do well on standard sized iPads. My arms, and I’m 6’4” tall, are too short to hold the screen far enough away to fix and hold the images in place while manipulating the conjoined image. If you were to make an iPad-friendly version of those two pages, one in which they are just a little bit closer together, it would vastly improve the experience.