120-cell

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  • čas přidán 2. 06. 2010
  • This short computer graphics animation presents the regular 120-cell: a four dimensional polytope composed of 120 dodecahedra and also known as the hyperdodecahedron or hecatonicosachoron. The figure is built up through a sequence of subsequent foldings: 5 segments form a pentagon, 12 pentagons form a dodecahedron and eventually 120 dodecahedra form the 3D shadow of a 120-cell.
    The animation is included in Mathfilm 2008 DVD.
    See also www.matematita.it and www.formulas.it.
    The animation has been generated with POV-Ray
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Komentáře • 107

  • @cloudswrest
    @cloudswrest Před 13 lety +18

    Excellent! It actually shows the symmetries rather than just looking like a tumor like some of the other renditions of nets of the 120-cell.

  • @WildStar2002
    @WildStar2002 Před 9 lety +62

    Absolutely amazing video! Makes the 120-Cell much more understandable and accessible! *Almost* I can visualize this object while watching your video. Well done!

  • @8ytan
    @8ytan Před 9 lety +116

    how did you animate this without having an aneurism

  • @restcure
    @restcure Před 2 lety +15

    Wonderful! - it may be just because there's more details (lines and cells) than in the hypercube animations that I've seen, but for the first time, I could actually see how the fold into 4D works.

    • @whatelseison8970
      @whatelseison8970 Před 2 lety +1

      I got that too. I would imagine there's actually infinite ways to "assemble" the 120 cell from dodecahedra but the pair of helical chains wrapping around one another to form linked tori looks amazing and is very effective at showing a lot of structure that's normally hidden.

  • @wedmunds
    @wedmunds Před 9 lety +22

    *My walls are now coated with brain tissue and skull fragments

  • @alesonbrjk
    @alesonbrjk Před 4 měsíci +2

    looking forward to the day this becomes yet another one of those mass recommended old videos

  • @Brawler_1337
    @Brawler_1337 Před 4 lety +5

    This video really helped me wrap my head around the construction of the 120-cell. Thanks!

    • @gianmarcotodesco
      @gianmarcotodesco  Před 4 lety

      I'm really happy to read this! Thank you for your comment!

    • @Brawler_1337
      @Brawler_1337 Před 4 lety

      Gian Marco Todesco No problem. The key really was seeing how the dodecahedra are wrapped around each other in a helical fashion before being wrapped into the fourth dimension.

    • @gianmarcotodesco
      @gianmarcotodesco  Před 4 lety

      @@Brawler_1337 Very true. This is indeed a unique feature of the 4D space. Even the "simple" tesseract can be seen as two interlocked "chains" of cubes.

    • @Brawler_1337
      @Brawler_1337 Před 4 lety +1

      Gian Marco Todesco Yeah, I had fewer issues understanding the hyper cube since it’s so simple. It’s mainly the huge and complex polychora that give me trouble.

  • @haimkichik
    @haimkichik Před 4 lety +4

    Beautiful Video and Music and perspectives!

  • @alastor1419
    @alastor1419 Před 2 lety +3

    How to make a 4d shape:
    Make a 3d shape
    *Cram smaller 3d shapes inside of the bigger 3d shape in such a way that the shape can move in the W axis*

  • @sinairobins
    @sinairobins Před 11 lety +11

    This video is truly amazing, the author deserves many thanks, and even prizes for this.

  • @JWentu
    @JWentu Před 8 lety +9

    wow! now i need the same for the 600cells

  • @azealot7112
    @azealot7112 Před 5 lety +3

    I never thought I’d be able to comprehend this shape to such a degree.

  • @joeymagdelone3705
    @joeymagdelone3705 Před rokem +1

    I hope the afterlife is just me watching things like this, that was beautiful

  • @hippotizer
    @hippotizer Před 5 lety +3

    pure beauty!

  • @faridrezkallaoui2118
    @faridrezkallaoui2118 Před 3 lety +1

    Genius . I like creative people . Thank for this work

  • @AlejandroDrago
    @AlejandroDrago Před 13 lety +1

    EXTRAORDINARY work!

  • @hedronsciences
    @hedronsciences Před 8 lety +2

    really, really, well done. thank you.

  • @aesthetic1950
    @aesthetic1950 Před 14 lety +1

    Fascinating and sublime.

  • @cjl85uk
    @cjl85uk Před 11 lety +1

    Awesome.... the shadow element was revolutionary for my ponderings... in general this video left me re-thinking my perspectives - love it when that happens! fantastically put together, presented and constructed! keep at it team! :)

  • @G_Silent
    @G_Silent Před 4 lety +1

    The real amazing and mind bending world of topology, amazing

  • @tejaK
    @tejaK Před 11 lety +2

    Wow, magnificent, Gian Marco, huge thanks!:)

  • @grabern
    @grabern Před 7 lety +11

    I want to live in a 4D universe. : (

  • @LOGICZOMBIE
    @LOGICZOMBIE Před 3 lety +1

    Amazing.

  • @whatelseison8970
    @whatelseison8970 Před 2 lety

    Delightful!

  • @somegalaxy4550
    @somegalaxy4550 Před rokem +1

    post this clip on discord when they least expected it

  • @micah9461
    @micah9461 Před 7 lety +2

    wonderful, thank you so much!

  • @qflexmoves
    @qflexmoves Před 2 lety +1

    my favorite shape yet

  • @user-yn6cy3bf9f
    @user-yn6cy3bf9f Před 5 měsíci

    Exceptional!

  • @akrulla
    @akrulla Před 3 lety

    Up to a point I was following along very easily...

  • @jeremyboon
    @jeremyboon Před 9 lety

    Yes! Thank you that was awesome.

  • @thelanguageofthebirds
    @thelanguageofthebirds Před 11 lety

    this is pretty cool

  • @confusedscreaming8787
    @confusedscreaming8787 Před 3 lety +1

    me coming here because of deltarune and seeing the people who are actually looking at the maths and making my brain explode
    this is so confusing but also kinda cool

  • @graciouslump9695
    @graciouslump9695 Před 3 lety +1

    everybody wants a hecatonicosahedroid but doesnt want to admit it

  • @autopaperairplanes
    @autopaperairplanes Před rokem

    The Magic of Math!

  • @mittenedwatchmakerstudios2866

    I hope that aliens will spare us when they see that some among us have developed the capability to understand, describe, and even visualize dimensions higher than our own

  • @AsymptoteInverse
    @AsymptoteInverse Před 11 lety +1

    Beautiful! Although I must admit, I have a headache now.

  • @gyinagal
    @gyinagal Před 12 lety +1

    beautiful. If only I could look at a real one.

  • @charlesmilner5602
    @charlesmilner5602 Před 11 lety +2

    At 0:47 you state that on the page that you are viewing the shadow, or 2-D cross section. Thank you for not ignoring this fact, shadows and cross sections is something everyone ignores in these videos. God bless you. But you for got to mention that the hyperdodecahedron was a 3D shadow, and that it was just rotating, not tensing. For example, when the shadow of the dodecahedron was on the page, what did it look like?

  • @elliotgale470
    @elliotgale470 Před 7 lety

    Two thumbs way way up!

  • @Falaxuper
    @Falaxuper Před 9 lety +4

    I think I get it now...

  • @amicipok
    @amicipok Před 12 lety

    E' meraviglioso!!

  • @IgorKaratayev
    @IgorKaratayev Před 10 lety +21

    What a satanic music.

  • @SyberQ
    @SyberQ Před 4 lety +2

    I came here cause Toby Fox put in Deltarune, in a poster:
    "There some baisic shapes on this poster, a circle, a triangle, a square......................a hecatonicosachoron"

  • @yeboiagus5592
    @yeboiagus5592 Před 5 lety

    Ah fuvk. I wandered off too far again.

  • @Waffle__Host
    @Waffle__Host Před 2 lety

    Yep, somewhat like that

  • @goinghamilton7863
    @goinghamilton7863 Před 9 lety +4

    what the fuck is this music holy shit

    • @Laggy2000
      @Laggy2000 Před 7 lety

      Fuckin lit brother yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

  • @11manuru
    @11manuru Před 5 lety +1

    Which music is this?
    amazing video btw

  • @superem9831
    @superem9831 Před 2 lety

    Very shape

  • @franksigwart9777
    @franksigwart9777 Před 2 lety

    And that's how mass is formed. Any questions?

  • @wolfstar3883
    @wolfstar3883 Před 4 lety +1

    Dodeca-dangit. Don’t tell me you played the hecatonicosahedroid.

  • @ffggddss
    @ffggddss Před 7 lety +5

    This is a fantastic visualization tool for {5,3,3}!
    Do you think you could make a comparable video of the 600-cell, {3,3,5} ("hyper-icosahedron"; its cells are tetrahedra; its vertex figures are icosahedra)?
    Or even the 24-cell, {3,4,3} ("hyperdiamond"; cells are octahedra; vertex figures are cubes)?

    • @gianmarcotodesco
      @gianmarcotodesco  Před 7 lety +2

      Hi! Thankyou for your kind words. It would definitely be possible to animate also the 600-cell and the 24-cell, but it would require some effort and in this moment I'm too busy :-(

  • @animaniacsfan2
    @animaniacsfan2 Před 12 lety

    I believe that you colored it with some sort of swirlprism symmetry.

  • @alcyonecrucis
    @alcyonecrucis Před 6 lety +3

    Did you compose the score yourself? It is interesting harmonically.

  • @unintelligible-synapse
    @unintelligible-synapse Před 2 lety +1

    1:44 mobius strip vibes

  • @KronoGarrett
    @KronoGarrett Před 13 lety

    Ooooooh. Even though it's not my field and most of the stuff I work with is generally pretty Euclidean, ooooh.

  • @TomtheMagician21
    @TomtheMagician21 Před 2 lety +1

    Wow this actually helped me understand this extremely complicated shape, how did you make this animation???

    • @FUNKINETIK
      @FUNKINETIK Před 10 měsíci

      I was wondering the same about the animation and how it’s made…. incredible piece of work. I’ve had a ‘thing’ about the Dodecahedron for 9 years, ever since I accidentally formed one from bamboo skewers (long story) …. Here’s something I discovered about the Dodecahedron a couple of years ago czcams.com/video/mXAKv-vSvRM/video.html
      The animation is nowhere near the quality of this one but I hope you find it interesting.

  • @Benasxxx
    @Benasxxx Před 13 lety

    So Nice... Im in hipnose...

  • @ZayenDraten
    @ZayenDraten Před 2 lety

    Does anyone know if you were to pause the video at 1:19 and pick out two opposite cells such that they'd be the north/south pole cells to each other, which ones would they be?

    • @omerd602
      @omerd602 Před rokem +1

      Each chain of 10 dodecahedra (6 chains per column) contains 5 pairs of opposite cells, so you just need to pick the cell that's 5 away on the same color chain on the same column
      It makes sense because the dodecahedra in a chain are stacked linearly, so of course they would loop around to themselves

  • @1MadJack1
    @1MadJack1 Před 12 dny

    well that was interesting

  • @aSeaofTroubles
    @aSeaofTroubles Před 9 lety +4

    Stunning. May I have the name of the musical piece? Fits perfectly!

  • @shocklobster
    @shocklobster Před 12 lety +1

    1:27 is where the drugs kick in.

  • @WaySide66
    @WaySide66 Před 13 lety

    sick. Although I was hoping for a laptop battery hack, lol

  • @monkibase
    @monkibase Před 7 lety +2

    Hi! I'm currently working on building the same polytope. How do you perform rotation from two sets of dodecahedra? looks like 4D rotation but applied on 3D objects. Thanks!

    • @gianmarcotodesco
      @gianmarcotodesco  Před 7 lety +1

      Hi. In fact it is 4D rotation applied to 4D objects. The fourth coordinate of all the vertices of the unfolded model is zero. More details by email (todesco AT toonz DOT com)

    • @gianmarcotodesco
      @gianmarcotodesco  Před 7 lety

      P.S. sorry for the delay

    • @gianmarcotodesco
      @gianmarcotodesco  Před 5 lety +1

      @@alparslanozafsar3435 I started with the 4D regular 120-cell. Each dodecahedron is a polychoron cell, correctly placed in the 4D space: all the vertices lie on a 4D hypersphere. I use a stereoprojection to represent the object in 3D. Initially (at the beginning of the video) the polychoron is "unfolded". There is a "root" cell; all other cells are eventually linked to this cell accoerding to a tree structure: each dodecahedron has a parent (except the root). I 4D-rotate each dodecahedron "around" the 2-face shared with the parent. When the rotation is complete the polychoron is completely "unfolded" and lies on the same 3D-space of the root that is parallel to the (stereo)projection space. Therefore the dodecahedra appear not deformed in the projection. This is what you see until 1:24. Then the cells fold again forming the 120-cell (after 1:33). Eventually the polychoron starts rotating in the 4D space (after 1:44).

    • @gianmarcotodesco
      @gianmarcotodesco  Před 5 lety

      @@alparslanozafsar3435thank you for your kind words! :)
      You are right about the hopf fibration.

  • @atifbhore7740
    @atifbhore7740 Před 3 lety

    so where is the hopf fibration?

  • @vivianaperezramos7222
    @vivianaperezramos7222 Před 9 měsíci

    hecatonicosachoron

  • @Mainconcern
    @Mainconcern Před 11 lety

    you broke the universe..

  • @antcubingx
    @antcubingx Před rokem +1

    music?

  • @charlesmilner5602
    @charlesmilner5602 Před 11 lety

    *An axis with two directions

  • @xdmich6018
    @xdmich6018 Před 4 lety +1

    Very strange

  • @MrPillowStudios
    @MrPillowStudios Před 2 lety

    The, "D" in digital became a, "B".

  • @sinairobins
    @sinairobins Před 11 lety

    perhaps we are..... ?

  • @VioletGreenfields
    @VioletGreenfields Před 2 lety

    😍😍😍😍😍✨

  • @NestanSvensk
    @NestanSvensk Před 11 lety

    Maybe we are but we just can't see it. :D

  • @damiansp1135
    @damiansp1135 Před 11 měsíci

    raise Rigey#

  • @MsWhitekanna
    @MsWhitekanna Před 13 lety

    Shh...there is math at work here!

  • @Psillypoi
    @Psillypoi Před 11 lety

    ...dmt.

  • @sk8nbarrow591
    @sk8nbarrow591 Před 6 lety

    Quite amazing and educational. The plunky music though really sucks.

  • @charlesmilner5602
    @charlesmilner5602 Před 11 lety

    But the reason you cannot see a 4-D shape or conceive or imagine one is because with every dimension there is an axis of two dimensions. 2D cross sections remove one of these axis, and so do 3D cross sections, and the consequence is the shape appearing to tense, when it is really rotating. So you are looking at a shadow. Luckily the comments weren't filled with retards, but only mind-blown civilians. Even the uploader seemed to know what he or she was doing. This gives me faith in the human race

  • @rOcKpApErM16
    @rOcKpApErM16 Před 13 lety

    MIND FUCK

  • @mayday478
    @mayday478 Před 11 lety

    halp

  • @wozahh
    @wozahh Před 5 lety

    deltarune