Message #1781

From: Andrey <andreyastrelin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] 4D Car
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:38:42 -0000

Yes, it’s a car for 4D Euclidean World. So it needs 3 front wheels to keep direction and to turn in 3 degrees of freedom (left/right, kata/ana, clockwise/counterclockwise) :)
Next stage is to design 4D road crossing. But it’s not very interesting - it’s just a work with tubes in 3D…

Andrey

— In 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com, Nan Ma <mananself@…> wrote:
>
> 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@…> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>