_Model 1._ _Model 2._
Gold corresponds to Silver
Fawn „ „ Turquoise
Terra-cotta „ „ Earthen
Buff „ „ Blue tint
Light-blue „ „ Quaker-green
Dull-purple „ „ Peacock-blue
Deep-blue „ „ Orange-vermilion
Red „ „ Purple
LINES.
_Model 1._ _Model 2._
Orange corresponds to Leaf-green
Crimson „ „ Dull-green
Green-grey „ „ Dark-purple
Blue „ „ Purple-brown
Brown „ „ Dull-blue
French-grey „ „ Dark-pink
Dark-slate „ „ Pale-pink
Green „ „ Indigo
Reddish „ „ Brown-green
Bright-blue „ „ Dark-green
Leaden „ „ Pale-yellow
Deep-yellow „ „ Dark
The colour of the cube itself is invisible, as it is covered by its
boundaries. We suppose it to be Sage-green.
These two cubes are just as disconnected when looked at by us as the
black and white squares would be to a plane-being if placed side by side
on his plane. He cannot see the squares in their right position with
regard to each other, nor can we see the cubes in theirs.
Let us now consider the vermilion side of Model 1. If it move in the X
direction, it traces the cube of Model 1. Its Gold point travels along
the Orange line, and itself, after tracing the cube, ends in the
Blue-green square. But if it moves in the new direction, it will also
trace a cube, for the new direction is at right angles to the up and
away directions, in which the Brown and Blue lines run. Let this square,
then, move in the unknown direction, and trace a cube. This cube we
cannot see, because the unknown direction runs out of our space at once,
just as the up direction runs out of the plane of the table. But a
plane-being could see the square, which the Blue line traces when moved
upwards, by the cube being turned round the Blue line, the Orange line
going upwards; then the Brown line comes into the plane of the table in
the -X direction. So also with our cube. As treated above, it runs from
the Vermilion square out of our space. But if the tessaract were turned
so that the line which runs from the Gold point in the unknown direction
lay in our space, and the Orange line lay in the unknown direction, we
could then see the cube which is formed by the movement of the Vermilion
square in the new direction.
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