"A Tesseract - the geometry that makes this table - is the
4th-dimensional analog of the cube: the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is
to the square. We perceive the tesseract
as the 3-D "shadow" of a 4-D geometry, just as a regular 3-D cube can
be seen in 2-D as a shadow. Light
explodes the Tesseract Table's 4-D/3-D simulacrum into actual 2-D shadow,
highlighted by the table's material pallet and beyond onto surrounding
surfaces. This gives sensory
representation to theoretical math's assertion that a 4th spacial dimension
would allow us to see all sides of objects as well as their interior, at once. The interaction of light with the tesseract
table ties directly to the concept of the 4th dimension as time, perception of
reality, and physicists Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking's explanations of
black holes.
Confused? Who cares!?
Move the light around to create different shapes in the area around you! It has
a magnet at its base to hold onto the frame."
The Tesseract Table was built with Ally Bruser for Green Project Salvations 2014. It is made completely of salvaged materials. The switchable/flexible LED lighting magnet is entirely salvaged materials except for the LED chip.
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