Comments from the original artist: The original tesseract animation was removed from the tesseract page because I wanted to maintain some consistency with the other 4D geometry animations that I had rendered, and those were all done in the style of candidate #1. I find it interesting how much debate the different versions have sparked. I would be willing to render new versions of the tesseract at any angle or speed, but fear that additional versions would only make a consensus more difficult to reach. This really does appear to be a conflict between function and form. I suspect that there are four orthogonal issues that actually need to be decided.
A) Should we keep the reflections?
B) Should the tesseract rotate about a single plane, or two planes simultaneously?
C) What camera orientation should be used? (Should starting frame center view on a face, edge, or corner? Should tesseract rotate horizontally or vertically?)
D) What speed should the animation be rendered at?
I suspect that because explanatory power should probably trump eye candy in any encyclopedia, both A and B will be decided in favor of simplicity. But to add to the confusion, I also have the ability to render the center cube in a different color, as seen in the logo I developed for this page: http://www.hc-info.net/
I will be happy to go with whatever the community consensus is... I just hope that I have not created a religious divide by offering too many options :) JasonHise 16:58, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
there's no point having rotation or reflective glass, it's just confusing Nuclear froggy 07:06, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Replaced with Image:8-cell-simple.gif MER-C 02:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Comments from the original artist: The original tesseract animation was removed from the tesseract page because I wanted to maintain some consistency with the other 4D geometry animations that I had rendered, and those were all done in the style of candidate #1. I find it interesting how much debate the different versions have sparked. I would be willing to render new versions of the tesseract at any angle or speed, but fear that additional versions would only make a consensus more difficult to reach. This really does appear to be a conflict between function and form. I suspect that there are four orthogonal issues that actually need to be decided.
A) Should we keep the reflections?
B) Should the tesseract rotate about a single plane, or two planes simultaneously?
C) What camera orientation should be used? (Should starting frame center view on a face, edge, or corner? Should tesseract rotate horizontally or vertically?)
D) What speed should the animation be rendered at?
I suspect that because explanatory power should probably trump eye candy in any encyclopedia, both A and B will be decided in favor of simplicity. But to add to the confusion, I also have the ability to render the center cube in a different color, as seen in the logo I developed for this page: http://www.hc-info.net/
I will be happy to go with whatever the community consensus is... I just hope that I have not created a religious divide by offering too many options :) JasonHise 16:58, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
there's no point having rotation or reflective glass, it's just confusing Nuclear froggy 07:06, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Replaced with Image:8-cell-simple.gif MER-C 02:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)