In fig. 109 we take red, white, and blue axes in space, sending yellow
into the fourth dimension. If it goes into the positive sense of the
fourth dimension the blue line will come in the opposite direction to
that in which the yellow line ran before. Hence, the cube determined
by the white, red, blue axes, will start from the pink plane and run
towards us. The dotted cube shows where the ochre cube was. When it is
turned out of space, the cube coming towards from its front face is
the one which comes into our space in this turning. Since the yellow
line now runs in the unknown dimension we call the sections _y__{0},
_y__{1}, _y__{2}, _y__{3}, _y__{4}, as they are made at distances 0, 1,
2, 3, 4, quarter inches along the yellow line. We suppose these cubes
arranged in a line coming towards us—not that that is any more natural
than any other arbitrary series of positions, but it agrees with the
plan previously adopted.
[Illustration: Fig. 109.]
The interior of the first cube, _y__{0}, is that derived from pink by
adding blue, or, as we call it, light purple. The faces of the cube are
light blue, purple, pink. As drawn, we can only see the face nearest to
us, which is not the one from which the cube starts—but the face on the
opposite side has the same colour name as the face towards us.
The successive sections of the series, _y__{0}, _y__{1}, _y__{2}, etc.,
can be considered as derived from sections of the _b__{0} cube made at
distances along the yellow axis. What is distant a quarter inch from
the pink face in the yellow direction? This question is answered by
taking a section from a point a quarter inch along the yellow axis in
the cube _b__{0}, fig. 107. It is an ochre section with lines orange
and light yellow. This section will therefore take the place of the
pink face in _y__{1} when we go on in the yellow direction. Thus, the
first section, _y__{1}, will begin from an ochre face with light yellow
and orange lines. The colour of the axis which lies in space towards
us is blue, hence the regions of this section-cube are determined in
nomenclature, they will be found in full in fig. 105.
There remains only one figure to be drawn, and that is the one in which
the red axis is replaced by the blue. Here, as before, if the red axis
goes out into the positive sense of the fourth dimension, the blue line
must come into our space in the negative sense of the direction which
the red line has left. Accordingly, the first cube will come in beneath
the position of our ochre cube, the one we have been in the habit of
starting with.
[Illustration: Fig. 110.]
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