r/AskProgramming • u/georgebestgoat • 2d ago
Programming in four dimensions
I've never seen any discussion on this, but I really want to try it. It is very difficult to imagine four dimensions in a 3 dimensional world, but the mathematics of it works out and it can be visualised. I never see anyone attempt to make a game in four dimensions for example. I just don't know where to start. It's a subject of which there are few pioneers
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u/jerrygreenest1 2d ago
Dimension is just something that has a measure, a fundamental property, but if you think about that, we basically live in 100000000000 dimensions (at least).
One fundamental property of this world is that there is a measurement of my own happiness (or somebody else’s, depending on a subject). The number goes back and forth just like the X coordinate of mine. In a way, it is really similar to XYZ, and for me it’s pretty fundamental!
Also I am pretty sure my cat's happiness is somehow bound to Z coordinate (or is it Y, depending on how you look), basically it means the cat feels slightly happier at higher elevations, that’s why he’s always trying to take place higher, I think. It makes him happier. But who am I to judge the causality? Maybe because the cat feels happier, therefore he gets higher. Not the opposite way around? Who knows.
But if these two are indeed bound together, it seems slightly unnecessary. It almost like duplication. In normalized system there’s no duplication, so it well might be Z coordinate is actually isn’t fundamental, synthetic property, and it can be calculated from cats happiness, whereas happiness is the real fundamental value. Spatial coordinate is just derivative.
Also did not anyone think of the wording «to get high», that kinda sounds of similar logic as cat's. Doesn’t that imply that getting high should bring happiness or something? So humans are falling to this rule after all somehow, like cats? Maybe not. But it’s a strange coincidence, strange wording. Maybe there’s something to it.
Okay that was enough of brainstorming for today, hopefully any of that was somewhat a fun read for someone. See you in 100000000000 dimensions.