Each Point traces a Line and ends in a Point.
The Gold point} {Stone line} and{Silver point
„ Fawn „ }traces{Smoke „ }ends{Turquoise „
„ Terra-cotta „ } a {Magenta „ } in {Earthen „
„ Buff „ } {Light-green „ } a {Blue-tint „.
This completes the enumeration of the regions of Cube 3. It may seem a
little unnatural that it should come in downwards; but it must be
remembered that the new fourth direction has no more relation to
up-and-down than to right-and-left or to near-and-far.
And if, instead of thinking of a plane-being as living on the surface of
a table, we suppose his world to be the surface of the sheet of paper
touching the Dark-blue square of Cube 1, then we see that a turn round
the Orange line, which makes the Brown line go into the plane-being’s
unknown direction, brings the Blue line into his downwards direction.
There still remain to be described Models 4, 6, and 8. It will be shown
that Model 4 is to Model 3 what Model 2 is to Model 1. That is, if, when
3 is in our space, it be moved so as to trace a tessaract, 4 will be
the opposite cube in which the tessaract ends. There is no colour common
to 3 and 4. Similarly, 6 is the opposite boundary of the tessaract
generated by 5, and 8 of that by 7.
A little closer consideration will reveal several points. Looking at
Cube 5, we see proceeding from the Gold point a Brown, a Blue, and a
Stone line. The Orange line is wanting; therefore, it goes in the
unknown direction. If we want to discover what exists in the unknown
direction from Cube 5, we can get help from Cube 1. For, since the
Orange line lies in the unknown direction from Cube 5, the Gold point
will, if moved along the Orange line, pass in the unknown direction. So
also, the Vermilion square, if moved along in the direction of the
Orange line, will proceed in the unknown direction. Looking at Cube 1 we
see that the Vermilion square thus moved ends in a Blue-green square.
Then, looking at Model 6, on it, corresponding to the Vermilion square
on Cube 5, is a Blue-green square.
Cube 6 thus shows what exists an inch beyond 5 in the unknown direction.
Between the right-hand face on 5 and the right-hand face on 6 lies a
cube, the one which is shown in Model 1. Model 1 is traced by the
Vermilion square moving an inch along the direction of the Orange line.
In Model 5, the Orange line goes in the unknown direction; and looking
at Model 6 we see what we should get at the end of a movement of one
inch in that direction. We have still to enumerate the colours of Cubes
4, 6, and 8, and we do so in the following list. In the first column is
designated the part of the cube; in the columns under 4, 6, 8, come the
colours which 4, 6, 8, respectively have in the parts designated in the
corresponding line in the first column.
Cube itself:--
4 6 8
Chocolate Oak-yellow Salmon
Squares:--
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