Now, you will find on cube 10 a light yellow face; this should coincide
with the base of 1, and the white and yellow lines on the two cubes
should coincide. Then the blue axis running down you have the catalogue
cube correctly placed, and it forms a guide for putting up the first
representative block.
Catalogue cube 11 will represent what lies in the fourth dimension—now
the red line runs in the fourth dimension. Thus the change from 10 to
11 should be towards red, corresponding to a null point is a red point,
to a white line is a pink line, to a yellow line an orange line, and so
on.
Catalogue cube 12 is like 10. Hence we see that to build up our blocks
of tesseract faces we must take the bottom layer of the first block,
hold that up in the air, underneath it place the bottom layer of the
second block, and finally underneath this last the bottom layer of the
last of our normal blocks.
Similarly we make the second representative group by taking the middle
courses of our three blocks. The last is made by taking the three
topmost layers. The three axes in our space before the transverse
motion begins are blue, white, yellow, so we have light green tesseract
faces, and after the motion begins sections transverse to the red light.
These three blocks represent the appearances as the tesseract group in
its new position passes across our space. The cubes of contact in this
case are those determinal by the three axes in our space, namely, the
white, the yellow, the blue. Hence they are light green.
It follows from this that light green is the interior cube of the first
block of representative cubic faces.
Practice in the manipulations described, with a realization in each
case of the face or section which is in our space, is one of the best
means of a thorough comprehension of the subject.
We have to learn how to get any part of these four-dimensional figures
into space, so that we can look at them. We must first learn to swing a
tesseract, and a group of tesseracts about in any way.
When these operations have been repeated and the method of arrangement
of the set of blocks has become familiar, it is a good plan to rotate
the axes of the normal cube 1 about a diagonal, and then repeat the
whole series of turnings.
Thus, in the normal position, red goes up, white to the right, yellow
away. Make white go up, yellow to the right, and red away. Learn the
cube in this position by putting up the set of blocks of the normal
cube, over and over again till it becomes as familiar to you as in the
normal position. Then when this is learned, and the corresponding
changes in the arrangements of the tesseract groups are made, another
change should be made: let, in the normal cube, yellow go up, red to
the right, and white away.
Learn the normal block of cubes in this new position by arranging them
and re-arranging them till you know without thought where each one
goes. Then carry out all the tesseract arrangements and turnings.
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