More 4D for your viewing pleasure

[Zoof]

Inspiration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s27n3QzuE4E

Transpiration: see zipped ild files

Best viewed @ 25 fps.

[keeperx]

nice.. thanks zoof

[ljk]

Looks good zoof, how did you create it?

[Stuka]

Cool - thanks for posting Zoof!!

[Zoof]

Looks good zoof, how did you create it?

This is all done with ZoofBrew

Similar to the tesseract that you may remember, this is a 4D shape rotating about its 4D axis creating nice animations in 3D/2D.

It seems a nice and novel way to make laser abstracts.

[drlava]

The free 'LaserWave' software makes these abstracts and exports to wav, so then laserboy program must be used to convert the wav to ilda.

[Zoof]

The free 'LaserWave' software makes these abstracts and exports to wav, so then laserboy program must be used to convert the wav to ilda.

I doubt they use 4D graphics. Do you have a link to the software? The name is too generic for a quick search.

[drlava]

the interface is a bit awkward but once you get it displaying and cycle through the tons of presets it's pretty cool. He uses multiple 3-d cyclic generators with morphing constants. I don't know what the requirements of calling something '4d graphics' is but some of the results look a lot like that youtube video. I agree it needs a new name..
LaserWave(the application)

[Zoof]

Ah, thanks.
As for the 4D requirement, that is just theoretical. In the end it is all just math.

[OldGrumpy]

In the end, it's all just a projection of an object with more than three dimensions down to two or three dimensions. There are videos of 3d-projections of "hypercubes" (that would be a 4-dimensional equivalent to the 3d object "cube") on youtube, too. The rotation along four independent axis' creates amazing effects when projected down to 3 dimensions
Mathematically, it's not that complicated, it just increases the amount of calculations and data. Just like so often, the most spectacular things are sort of a piece of cake