by Sienna Morris

Tesseract

I’m setting up to work on an exploding Tardis and am considering using tesseract information for the blue box itself. I picked up some books on the subject from Powell’s yesterday, as well as finally picking up “Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”, which people have been telling me to read for ages now. ( I managed to spend under $100, which is a first for me. I’m proud that I could show some restraint at Powell’s this time).

Rotating Tesseract. Image by Jason Hise.
Rotating Tesseract – A 3D projection by Jason Hise of an 8-cell performing a simple rotation about a plane. As seen on Wiki.


As soon as I finish this custom piece I’m working on, I will start on the Tardis. I will probably draw in a matter anti-matter explosion as well. I haven’t decided what size to make this one yet. I’d personally prefer a rather large Tardis, but I’d also love to make shirts of this once I finish (I’d want to wear one), but if I draw it too large, it just won’t translate onto something that small….. I’ve tried drawing large pieces with larger numbers, but I tend to revert to the tiny detail no matter what I do. Perhaps if I use giant markers I’d be forced to draw them bigger. If so, I could manage having the original large and it would still look good small.

Anywho.. I’ll post pictures when I get working on it. Until then, check out this video of Carl Sagan on 4 dimensional objects. It’s rather awesome.



Also, as a reminder to all you lovely hyper intelligent geeks out there, feel free to keep the reference material coming in. This work is all about learning as much as I can about the world around me and there’s so much out there that I’m not aware of. If you have an idea for the science in this one (or anything else for that matter), send it my way. You can send ideas along to me at Sienna.Morris@gmail.com or post them below.