Message #1780

From: Nan Ma <mananself@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] 4D Car
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:45:34 -0700

Hi,

What is a 4D car? A car that can travel on top of a 3D subspace of a 4D
Euclidean space? It would be more popular if it can travel in the Minkowski
spacetime (i.e. time-machine -_-; )

Nan

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Andrey <andreyastrelin@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi all,
> I’ve took a little break from 4D puzzles and spent some time to write
> simple 4D viewer and draw a model of 4D car for it.
>
> It is six-wheeled open car with one row of three passenger seats. Steering
> sphere is not ready now :(
>
> Side (horizontal) view:
>
> <img src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_1_1.jpg" />
> <img src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_1_2.jpg"/> <img
> src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_1_3.jpg"/>
>
> Top view (plan):
>
> <img src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_3_1.jpg"/> <img
> src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_3_2.jpg"/>
>
> Front view:
>
> <img src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_4_1.jpg"/> <img
> src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_4_2.jpg"/> <img
> src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_4_3.jpg"/>
>
> Intermediate view 1 (between side and top):
>
> <img src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_2_1.jpg"/> <img
> src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_2_2.jpg"/>
>
> Intermediate view 2 (from the wheel side). All three seats are visible:
>
> <img src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_5_1.jpg"/> <img
> src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_5_2.jpg"/> <img
> src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_5_3.jpg"/> <img
> src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_5_4.jpg"/>
>
> One more view:
>
> <img src="http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/car_6_1.jpg"/>
>
> You can download complete 4D model from here:
> http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/Examples/4DCar/4DCar.zip
>
> Viewer for it is here: http://astr73.narod.ru/4DView/4DView.zip .
> Navigation is easy: by combinations of Ctrl and Shift keys with left or
> right mouse buttons. Help/Help menu item gives description of commands.
>
>
>