Artifact
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A more detailed 256 k image of this painting.
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| After a very long journey the Starship Yendred arrives
at a gas giant (Gielo) with an earth like moon (Elm). At the L-5 point
of these bodies they find an artifact. Scout ships are dispatched to investigate
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Bibliography
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The best book I know to introduce the idea of 4 spatial dimensions
is Edwin Abbot's Flatland, published by Dover Books.
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In the same spirit as Flatland is A. K. Dewdney's The Planiverse,
published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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A good book on 2, 3, 4 & more dimensional objects is H. S. M. Coxeter's
Regular
Polytopes, published by Dover Books.
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A great book on 3 dimensional polytopes (aka polyhedra) is Alan Holden's
Shapes,
Space and Symmetry, published by Dover Books.
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Outside Web Links
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Flatland The Film
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Jonathan
Bower's cross sections of polychora.
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George Olshevsky's
polychora page- George coined the term "polychora". In 2 dimensions
you have polygons (many edges), in 3 polyhedra (many faces), and 4 dimensional
polytopes are called polychora (many rooms).
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Mark Newbold's
Star Polytope Slicer
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Online
version of Abbot's Flatland
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The
Nine Planets
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Extra Solar Planets.
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