Compound of five 24-cells
Compound of five 24-cells
An animation motivated by John Baez, http://bit.ly/2DXpPwL
We first see the 720 edges of a vertex-centered 600-cell in light gray, then five 24-cells fade in one by one. The first, in red, is also vertex-centered and covers 24 of the 120 vertices of the 600-cell. The next four 24-cells arrange like the faces of a tetrahedron, covering the remaining 96 vertices. The 600-cell fades out at the end so that we can focus on the five 24-cells and their combined 480 edges.
Through all this, one 600-cell vertex has been projected to infinity. Edges connected to that vertex (from the 600-cell and red 24-cell) are cut short.
https://youtu.be/t5i5nym05qI
An animation motivated by John Baez, http://bit.ly/2DXpPwL
We first see the 720 edges of a vertex-centered 600-cell in light gray, then five 24-cells fade in one by one. The first, in red, is also vertex-centered and covers 24 of the 120 vertices of the 600-cell. The next four 24-cells arrange like the faces of a tetrahedron, covering the remaining 96 vertices. The 600-cell fades out at the end so that we can focus on the five 24-cells and their combined 480 edges.
Through all this, one 600-cell vertex has been projected to infinity. Edges connected to that vertex (from the 600-cell and red 24-cell) are cut short.
https://youtu.be/t5i5nym05qI
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