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Wow, the title does not make it justice: I only went to look at it in an idle moment after lunch. Much better to transcribe the beginning of the video: 4D Toys
by AlbertoGP 6y ago
Wow, the title does not make it justice: I only went to look at it in an idle moment after lunch. Much better to transcribe the beginning of the video:
4D Toys is a toy box filled with 4-dimensional toys.
By 4-dimensional I mean that they exist in a world with 4 dimensions of space and 1 dimension of time, instead of 3 dimensions of space and 1 dimension of time.
It turns out that the rules of how objects bounce, slide and roll around can be generalized to higher dimensions, and this unique toy lets you experience what that would look like.
- dang 6y agoOk, let's take the title from the video instead. Thanks for pointing this out! Sometimes the best work hides behind dry or modest language. It's easy enough, albeit annoying, to brush away the inflated mediocre. It's so much harder to locate the unseen gems. Edit: ah, I see - the video is from 2017, and there was a thread back then too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14471931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14471931. I guess we'll make an ugly hybrid of the titles.
- chadmeister 6y agoThank you this is still much better than the useless original title