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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 22 Jul 1994.
Re: Line: Could be a diamond (really a hypercube)

Re: Line: Could be a diamond (really a hypercube)

In article <30k9o7$dq...@gagme.wwa.com>, bob...@wwa.com (Bob Allison) writes:

>    I've been told this is not a diamond, but a multi-dimensional cube.  
> OK, that's cool.  But I think it can still be seen as a diamond.
> 
>     _________
>    /|\     /|\
>   / |  \ /  | \
>  /__|__/ \__|__\
> |\  |  | |  |  /|
> | \ |----|--| / |
> | /\-\---|---/\ |
> |/_____|\|_____\|
>  \  |  \ /  |  /
>   \ |  / \  | /
>    \|/     \|/
>     --------

It's a hyper-cube.. (actually, the shadow of a hypercube, which is 3D,
since a hyper-cube is 4D) .. It's very hard to picture it 3D, let alone
2D.. (I have a model of the shadow somwhere.. very odd..)

Cheers!
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