In the same way, looking at the regions marked l. b. or light blue,
which starts nearest a corner, we see that the tesseracts occupying
it increase in length from left to right, forming a line, and that
there are as many lines of light blue tesseracts as there are sections
between the first and last section. Hence the light blue tesseracts
increase in number in two ways—in the right and left, and in the fourth
dimension. They ultimately form what we may call a plane surface.
Now all those regions which contain a mixture of two simple colours,
white, yellow, red, blue, increase in two ways. On the other hand,
those which contain a mixture of three colours increase in three ways.
Take, for instance, the ochre region; this has three colours, white,
yellow, red; and in the cube itself it increases in three ways.
Now regard the orange region; if we add blue to this we get a brown.
The region of the brown tesseracts extends in two ways on the left of
the second block, No. 2 in the figure. It extends also from left to
right in succession from one section to another, from section 2 to
section 3 in our figure.
Hence the brown tesseracts increase in number in three dimensions
upwards, to and fro, fourth dimension. Hence they form a cubic, a
three-dimensional region; this region extends up and down, near
and far, and in the fourth direction, but is thin in the direction
from left to right. It is a cube which, when the complete tesseract
is represented in our space, appears as a series of faces on the
successive cubic sections of the tesseract. Compare fig. 103 in which
the middle block, 2, stands as representing a great number of sections
intermediate between 1 and 3.
In a similar way from the pink region by addition of blue we have
the light purple region, which can be seen to increase in three ways
as the number of divisions becomes greater. The three ways in which
this region of tesseracts extends is up and down, right and left,
fourth dimension. Finally, therefore, it forms a cubic mass of very
small tesseracts, and when the tesseract is given in space sections
it appears on the faces containing the upward and the right and left
dimensions.
We get then altogether, as three-dimensional regions, ochre, brown,
light purple, light green.
Finally, there is the region which corresponds to a mixture of all the
colours; there is only one region such as this. It is the one that
springs from ochre by the addition of blue—this colour we call light
brown.
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