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Would you be able to describe what 5 dimensions looks like? And what are the 2 dimensions of time?

• lynndotpy 4y ago
  Three dimensions plotted normally, but then a grid of plots for slices in the two extra dimensions. Everything are axis-aligned boxes in my idea, so the math is easy for rotating the view. (But to rotate in 5D, you fix on 3 axes, not 1.)
• lynndotpy 4y ago
  Ah I forgot to describe the time dimension part! With one spacial dimension x, and one time dimension t, you can roughly describe motion like this: def move(speed, delta): x += speed*delta where `delta` is the change in time. In a 60fps game, delta = 1/60. Some games play with the `delta` for a "bullet time" effect. SuperHot is a game that employs this to great effect. With 2D time, I imagine it as red-time and blue-time. It might look like this: def move(speed_red, speed_blue, delta_red, delta_blue): x += speed_red * delta_red + speed_blue * delta_blue (This can be written more succinctly of course). A mechanic of this game involves switching between red-time and blue-time at will. Most elements would only move in red time or blue time. But some elements might move in a mixture of both. You can have arbitrary time dimensions, but I think two are plenty for this game. You can get real interesting with this mechanic. Velocity is preserved within a time-dimension, so you can "save" your momentum for later. You can have gravity with different strengths and directions for each time dimension. There's a lot of reasons this won't work for a realistic simulation. I had spent some time thinking of a fan-sequel to Outer Wilds which utilizes two time dimensions, but I don't think I can write a physics simulation where that would make sense. But for a lil platformer it can be fun