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by KaiserPro 546 days ago
> "4D dynamical worlds"

Its a feature of that field of science. I'm currently working in a lab that is doing bunch of things that in papers are described $adjective-AI. In practice its just a slightly hyped, but vaguely agreed upon by consensus in weird science paper english term, or set of terms. (in the same way that guassian splats and totally just point clouds with efficient alpha blending[only slightly more complex, please don't just take my word for it])

You probably understand what this term is meant to describe, but to spell it out gives a bit of insight into _why_ its got such a shite name.

o "4d": because its doing things over time. Normally thats a static scene with a camera flying through it (3D). when you have stuff other than the camera moving, you get an extra dimension, hence 4D.

o "dynamical" (god I hate this) dynamic means that objects in the video are moving around. So you can just used the multiple camera locations to build up a single view of an object or room, you need to account for movement of things in the scene.

o "worlds" to highlight that its not just one room being re-used over and over, its a generator (well its not, but thats for another post) of diverse scenes that can represent many locations around the world.

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They could be implying a little bit of computer graphics in the mix. Rotation, shear, and transformation matrices have a dimension of 4.
I mean yeah the transformation matrix is 4x3.