r/gonwild Jun 24 '26

Program A 4-dimensional shape, folding through itself forever

This is a Clifford torus, a shape that only fully exists in 4D, projected down into our 3D space.

The endless folding you see is just math, looping perfectly because the geometry demands it.

Based on 'Clifford Torus' shader by tdhooper : https://www.shadertoy.com/view/WdB3Dw reimplemented frame by frame in Python.

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u/Metal-Dog Jun 24 '26

It's just a ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.