Crooked Houses: Visualizing the Polychora with Hyperbolic Patchwork
Taneli Luotoniemi

Proceedings of Bridges 2017: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture
Pages 17–24
Regular Papers

Abstract

This paper presents kinetic models based on the 4-dimensional regular polytopes. The sequential ‘flattening’ is realized through the use of hyperbolic patchwork surfaces, which portray the bitruncated versions of the polychora. As pedagogical tools, these models offer a hands-on experience of 4D geometry.

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