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24 alternatives to Learn how to navigate the 4th dimension

My coworker Drew (http://traipse.com/) wrote a beautiful iPad app to teach about the fourth dimension (coordinate spaces and such.) http://fourthdimensionapp.com/

This iPad app teaches users about the fourth dimension, coordinate spaces, and special relativity through interactive 3D visualizations. Designed for anyone curious about advanced physics and mathematics concepts, it… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Learn how to navigate the 4th dimension launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    I was wondering how I can arrange objects along a spherical helix path, and read some articles on it. I ended up learning about parametric equations again, and make this visualization to document what I learned: https://visualrambling.space/moving-objects-in-3d/ feel free to visit and let me know what you think!

    2025 · visualrambling.space · its alternatives →

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    An app to easily create 3D models by sketching

    2016 · gravitysketch.com · its alternatives →

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    Intuitive Math Descriptions

    2018 · intuitive-math.club · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! I'm the author of this project. I wrote it because I think that the math that makes characters move in games and movies is incredibly beautiful, and I wanted to give others a glimpse into it. It's crazy to think that quaternions, an abstract mathematical tool discovered by William Rowan Hamilton in 1843, would be so perfectly suited to solve hard problems in the world of 3D character animation more than a hundred years later. The story of how he discovered quaternions is also beautiful. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia: "Hamilton was looking for ways of extending complex numbers…

    2022 · diegomacario.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Free 3D illustrations in 4K resolution

    2021 · tothethirddimension.com · its alternatives →

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    Place math objects on any surface and take screenshots.

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Ever since I remember I had a lot of curiosity regarding hyper dimensional spaces. Picturing higher dimensions, such an impossible yet exciting idea... So years ago I came across a small GIF of a tesseract. Since then it left me wondering how cubes from even higher dimensions would look like... Years passed and I became a software developer, decided to tackle the problem myself and ncube was the result. ncube allows you to visualize rotating hypercubes of arbitrary dimensions. It works by rotating the hyperdimensional vertices and applying a chain of perspective projections to them until the…

    2023 · ncube.ndavd.com · its alternatives →

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    Features include: - Several preset periodic orbits: the classic Figure-8, plus newly discovered 3D solutions from Li and Liao's recent database of 10,000+ orbits (https://arxiv.org/html/2508.08568v1) - Full 3D camera controls (rotate/pan/zoom) with body-following mode - Force and velocity vector visualization - Timeline scrubbing to explore the full orbital period The 3D presets are particularly interesting. Try "O₂(1.2)" or "Piano O₆(0.6)" from the Load Presets menu to see configurations where bodies weave in and out of the orbital plane. Most browser…

    Nov 2025 · trisolarchaos.com · its alternatives →

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    The first "3D painting" app

    2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy 3D sketching for design and ideation

    2021 · gravitysketch.com · its alternatives →

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    Google Translate for engineers working with motion

    2017 · google.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey, maker here. After launching a daily word search game, I randomly thought of this math game while driving. Finally got around to making it and I think it turned out pretty cool. It’s a math search game that’s meant to help you practice your quick addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills. I’m hoping it’ll help people (even those like me who aren’t big on math) learn and increase their speeds. (There are also some settings you can enable to make the game harder) If you try it out, please let me know if you found it fun, if you have anything you’d like me to add, or if you…

    2024 · worchle.com · its alternatives →

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    Cucalu▲94

    Explore the world through geometrical shapes (iOS game)

    2014 · cuca.lu · its alternatives →

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    Your source for daily math workouts!

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Polydust▲140

    3D polygon modeling finally meets iPad

    2019 · polydust.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi! This is an infinite canvas note-taking tool where notes are laid out in a non-Euclidean, hyperbolic geometric space. As you drag and navigate through the view, you’ll experience a unique fluid distortion that naturally leverages your brain's spatial memory. I’ve been obsessed with the concept of space in HCI for years. Many modern UI patterns are essentially workarounds for the lack of screen real estate. While researching zoom-based UIs a while back, I stumbled upon old HCI papers that used the Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane to organize data. It elegantly projects an…

    Jun 2026 · uonr.github.io · its alternatives →

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    I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.

    2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →

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    Explore tilings on the hyperbolic plane. Contribute to timhutton/hyperplay development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Dive into the world of Python programming through our curated collection of interactive coding tutorials.

    2021 · tinkerstellar.com · its alternatives →

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    While studying Geometric Algebra I have built some interactive visualization to demonstrate how geometric transformations (rotation, scaling, translation) can be constructed by just composing reflections. Accepting reflection as the most elementary geometric operation was an eye opening moment for me. I think some of you might enjoy the interactive visuals.

    Aug 2026 · static.laszlokorte.de · its alternatives →

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    Perfect for students to improve their math abilities

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    BOND▲68

    Making the fourth dimension visible

    May 2026 · bondrf.com · its alternatives →

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