But we have only accounted for one side of our Model 9. There are five
other sides. Take the near side corresponding to the Dark-blue square on
Cube 1. When the Dark-blue square moves, it traces a Dark-stone cube, of
which we have a copy in Cube 7. Looking at 7 (_v._ Table, p. 124), we
see that, as soon as the Dark-blue square begins to move, it becomes of
a Dark-stone colour, and has Yellow, Ochre, Yellow-green, and Azure
sides, and Stone, Rich-red, Green-blue, Smoke lines running in the
unknown direction from it. Now, the side of Model 9, which faces us, has
these colours the squares being seen as lines, and the lines as points.
Hence Model 9 is a copy of what the cube becomes, so far as the
Vermilion and Dark-blue sides are concerned, when, moving in the unknown
direction, it traces the tessaract.
We will now look at the lower square of our model. It is a Brick-red
square, with Azure, Rose, Sea-blue, and Light-brown lines, and with
Stone, Smoke, Magenta, and Light-green points. This, then, is what the
Black square should change into, as it moves in the unknown direction.
Let us look at Model 3. Here the Stone line, which is the line in the
unknown direction, runs downwards. It is turned into the downwards
direction, so that the cube traced by the Black square may be in our
space. The colour of this cube is Brick-red; the Orange line has traced
an Azure, the Blue line a Light-brown, the Crimson line a Rose, and the
Green-grey line a Sea-blue square. Hence, the lower square of Model 9
shows what the Black square becomes, as it traces the tessaract; or, in
other words, the section of Model 3 between the Black and Bright-green
squares exactly corresponds to the lower face of Model 9.
Therefore, it appears that Model 9 is a model of a section of the
tessaract, that it is to the tessaract what a square between the Black
and White squares is to the cube.
To prove the other sides correct, we have to see what the White,
Blue-green, and Light-yellow squares of Cube 1 become, as the cube moves
in the unknown direction. This can be effected by means of the Models 4,
6, 8. Each cube can be used as an index for showing the changes through
which any side of the first model passes, as it moves in the unknown
direction till it becomes Cube 2. Thus, what becomes of the White
square? Look at Cube 4. From the Light-blue corner of its White square
runs downwards the Rich-red line in the unknown direction. If we take a
parallel section below the White square, we have a square bounded by
Ochre, Deep-brown, Deep-green, and Light-red lines; and by Rich-red,
Green-blue, Sea-green, and Emerald points. The colour of the cube is
Chocolate, and therefore its section is Chocolate. This description is
exactly true of the upper surface of Model 9.
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