Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Think outside the Tesseract
















Geometry of Kempo - Karate - Kali



Where a circle ends a line begins - where a line ends a circle begins

Tesseract


Sensei




Dojo






Art

Geometry











Tesseract




The Tesseract is the kata - the hypercube is KarateDo

The Tesseract is the hypercube unravelled
the cube is the tesseract unravelled

The techniques are squares - sets are cubes
kata is tesseract
karatedo is the hypercube

Bunkai is kata unravelled into series of applied techniques
tesseract unravelled into a cube

Bunkai is kata unravelled into series of applied techniques
tesseract unravelled into a cube

Tesseract





Take six cubes.
Arrange them into the shape of a crucifix.
Take two more cubes
stick them either side of the crucifix
at the point where the cross is made.

Now you have a tesseract.

A tesseract is a 3 dimensional object.

A tesseract is also a 4 dimensional object
a hypercube
unravelled.

A square unravels to a line.
2 dimensions unravel to one.

A cube unravels to a cross.
3 dimensions unravel to two.

A hypercube unravels to a tesseract.
4 dimensions unravel to three.

You exist in three spatial dimensions.
In the same way that a one dimensional person
could not visualise a 2 dimensional square,
or a 2 dimensional person could not visualise a 3 dimensional cube,
you cannot visualise a hypercube.

A hypercube is a thing you are not equipped to understand.

You can only understand the Tesseract.

You can see the thing unravelled
you cannot see the thing itself.