The hypercube is not that much more complicated, withġ6 vertices and 32 edges. To give the impression of continuous motion in what is called Machines, a cube, with 8 vertices and 12 edges, can be rotated Production and display depends strongly on the number of Vertices and draws the appropriate segments. Wire-frame object, the computer calculates the positions of the Modern graphics computers can produce images very quickly. Should this window be placed slightly higher? Should that entranceway be longer? A turn of a dial can produce the new view and simultaneously make the changes for a new set of blueprints. As an architect takes her client on a tour of a prospective auditorium, she can alter the different features to create different impressions. We can experience what it would be like to walk along a corridor or down a staircase in a building that has not yet been constructed.

Architectural and industrial design become dynamic processes as we look at not just a few views but 30 views per second, each slightly different from its predecessor, giving the impression of continuous motion. We can combine a century and a half of animation experience together with modern computer graphics to create and investigate complicated configurations in three-dimensional space. Slow motion and freeze frame techniques made it possible to analyze the motion of a racehorse or the exertion of muscles in lifting a log. The photographs of Muybridge himself, striding up a ramp in front of his camera, could be placed on a rotary device and flipped over and over so that he walked on and on, in a primitive version of a motion picture. Within a generation of the invention of photography 150 years ago, Eadweard Muybridge had used this new technology to alter our perception of time and space. Animating the Hypercube Animating the Hypercube

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