Customs Official
March, 2006
On one level this tangle of stainless steel called Octacube is a work of art. On another it's a feat of mathematical derring-do. On still a third, it's a window into the fourth dimension. Confused yet? Its designer, Adrian Ocneanu, explains: An octacube is a four-dimensional regular solid with 96 sides. Just as your shadow is a two-dimensional outline of your three-dimensional form, this sculpture is a three-dimensional outline of a theoretical four-dimensional form. Four-dimensional objects are...
