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by SamBam 732 days ago
I've always found what happens in the third dimension weird.

A 0-dimensional space needs up to: 1 color.

A 1-dimensional space needs up to: 2 colors.

A 2-dimensional space needs up to: 4 colors.

A 3-dimensional space needs up to: ∞ colors.

I can easily picture why a 3D space has no limit to the number of colors (personally I always imagine color blocks hanging in space connected to every other color block by bendable wires), but I don't quite understand why the pattern is that way.

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Imagine the colours of a hypercube in 4-dimensional space!
A mantis shrimp told me, quote, "it's alright, i guess, if you're in to that sort of thing"