#4d maze game code#

Press, E, world goes in on the top right, out on the bottom left. You press D, world goes in on bottom, out on top. You press W, world goes in on top, out on bottom. Remember step one? When you abstracted the 'world go in picture' thing? At some orientation of the image-cube, the commands will match exactly what happens on screen. Now, play around rotating the cube ( i.e., the 3D projection). Setup the rotation inputs for WASDQE, in such a way that opposite rotations are opposite keys (that is instead of left-right being A-D and the other weird axis being Q-E, put left-right on A-E and the other one on Q-D). And there are keyboard inputs for rotating this 3D projection, without actually moving or reorienting in the maze! This is key to understanding what you're seeing. Now, just like the previous step, you can rotate the 2D projection, but also the 3D projection. What you're seeing is the 2D projection of a 3D projection of a 4D maze. As in, you could rotate the picture left or right (like, turning your monitor for example) without changing the 3D avatar's relation to the maze. Realize that what you're seeing is an image of what the camera in the maze is seeing ( heh, I sound like a monk doing guided meditation). How turning right 'makes world go in the picture' on the right side and 'go out the picture' on the left one and vice-versa, and how this distorts what your're seeing (but keep in mind that it's still a 2D projection of a 3D world) BUT, abstract away from the actual 3D maze you're building in your head, and look at the picture moving. It's boring and simple, and you'll think, ' duh, I got this'. Here's the revelation that allowed me to play it:įirst play the 3D version for awhile. The end is a yellow hypercube, like the start is a grey one. Still don't know what the end looks like, or even if it's any different from the rest of the tiles. I looked at a few of the 'notes' pages and messed about in the 3D maze, and it started to make a bit more sense. While it is technically a 3D projection of a 4D object shown on a 2D screen, it is effectively a 4D puzzle. That said, this puzzle acts the same way mathematically you could expect it to work if you managed to build a real 4D tesseract. I wouldn't be able to see the whole volume the way I can see a whole area. If I was tilted further so that I was looking at the center, I would be able to see the inner and outer core, the mantle, and the lithosphere-but only in a single 2-dimensional 'slice' at a time. If I was tilted a little towards Earth, I would be able to see a planar field of view where Earth would look like a 2-dimensional planet: The planet is a disc, with the surface being the outer edge, and the molten interior visible on the inside. At first I wouldn't be able to see anything, my vision is limited to a 3D space parallel to our universe. I know, and I've even tried to visualize what it would be like if I somehow was pulled into the fourth dimension and survived. You will never be able to witness a true tesseract. To move in the positive X direction type 'x', to move in the negative X direction type '-x'.That's the 3D shadow of a 4D object. Example 3 java -jar Maze4D.javaĬreates a default maze of dimensions 4x4x4x4 Commands :) Example 2 java -jar Maze4D.java dimX dimY dimZ dimU

That's 5^4 rooms, 625 rooms, that's a lot of rooms to navigate in 4D. The Jar file can be downloaded here: Maze4D.jar Run Example 1 java -jar Maze4D.java dimXYZU

#4d maze game code#

This code has not been thoroughly checked for possible bugs (namely Stack Overflows).

Note: This implementation uses recursion to do this. Set the room to visited, and start again from step 2 using the current room.While there are rooms in the list randomly select one.Add all surrounding rooms that have not been visited, or to a list.The algorithm used to generate the map is quite simple and always generates a perfect maze. As of now it is entirely text based however, a simple GUI is currently under development. This is a simple implementation of a 4D maze written in Java.