A tesseract unfolds into a small universe on the surface of a 4d sphere.
drag to turn it, scroll to travel the 4th dimention, tap to send a signal that comes back around the sphere, hold to slow time.
URL: https://tesseract.postminimal.agency
rendered in WebGPU with three.js TSL, all sound is synthesized live with Web Audio.
Putting it on the surface of a 4D sphere is a lovely twist. I drew a tesseract recently too, but much more literally: rotate in 4D, then a perspective projection from W (a camera at W = 1.65), so the “cube inside a cube” is just the far cell looking smaller.
Mapping scroll to the fourth dimension is a great way to make it tangible. Is scrolling a translation along W, or a rotation in one of the planes that involve W (XW/YW/ZW)?
Thanks Jonas, this is lovely
to answer your question, it is a rotation, all movements are rotations
the universe is a surface of a 4D ball, so rotating is how you travel, scrolling feels like going forward but the universe is turning back to you
