Re: Ok, how come we can only visualize 3 dimension (archive)

IMHO, we can only visualize TWO dimensions. Everything appears visually in 2 dimensions. However, we can perceive the third dimension through cues (time, focus, color, object familiarity).

For example, if we look at one face of a cube, we see a square. (Really, depending on perspective, we see a square within a square with each of the nodes connected by a line to its corresponding node). If we move in the X plane only, we can see a two rectangles, one skinny one and one squarish one. As we continue to move around the cube (or rotate the cube, if you rather)the sizes of the rectangles change. Through object familiarity and time-lapse, we perceive the cube.

However, at any given INSTANT in time, we can only SEE two dimensions. We extrapolate the third.

It is this ability that allows us to become involved in a movie, a three-dimensional world projected on a flat screen.

when we have six senses?

I haven't been keeping up on my reading. Ask me a question. Preferably science related.

Follow Ups:

Actually we can visualize four dimensions, time NonObvious 15:33 1/08/2001 (4)
- Re: Actually we can visualize four dimensions, tim tmb 15:48 1/08/2001 (3)
  - Hey guys, the question I posed is irrelevant... Dave 21:28 1/08/2001 (0)
  - Hey guys, I question I posed is irrelevant... Dave 21:25 1/08/2001 (0)
  - Hey guys, I question I posed is irrelevant... Dave 21:24 1/08/2001 (0)

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