Crooked Houses: Visualizing the Polychora with Hyperbolic Patchwork

Year: 2017 Authors: Taneli Luotoniemi

Core claim

A sewn, color-coded hyperbolic patchwork can physically model the bitruncated hypercube and make 4D cell relationships tangible.

Topics

4D geometry, regular polychora, hyperbolic surface, kinetic models

Domains

geometry, topology, polytope theory, Euler characteristic, textile art, kinetic sculpture, color design, mathematical visualization

Methods

truncation, bitruncation, sewing, perspective projection

Media

cotton cloth, hexagons, thread, hyperbolic patchwork

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