Tesseract (disambiguation)

In four-dimensional geometry, the tesseract is the four-dimensional analog of the cube.

Tesseract may also refer to:

In film and literature:

• Tesseract, a way of traveling in Madeleine L'Engle's science fiction-fantasy novel A Wrinkle In Time
• The Tesseract (novel), an Alex Garland novel
• Tesseract, the name of a major antagonist in the Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy
• Robert A. Heinlein's classic science fiction short story "—And He Built a Crooked House—" (1940), in which an earthquake causes a house built in the shape of the net of a tesseract to fold into an actual tesseract
• Project: Tesseract, the project in The Displaced Detective Series by Stephanie Osborn which accesses alternate dimension

In film:

• A tesseract is the basis of the movie Cube 2: Hypercube in which a group of people have to attempt to escape from one
• The Tesseract (film), a 2003 film based on the novel
• In the film Flatland: The Movie a model of a tesseract at the end is used to imply the existence of a physical fourth dimension to the inhabitants of the third
• In the movie S. Darko (2009) a tesseract is shown traveling through a wormhole to Earth.
• In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a powerful, cube-shaped device called the Tesseract (known in the mainstream Marvel Universe as the Cosmic Cube) appears briefly in the Post-credits scene of Thor and throughout Captain America: The First Avenger, in which it is described as "the jewel of Odin's treasure room". It is believed to also be the basis of the 2012 film The Avengers.

In art:

• Artists and writers have used the geometry of the tesseract to produce surrealistic effects, for instance in Salvador Dalí's Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)

In music:

• TesseracT, a British progressive metal band

Others:

• Tesseract (vehicle), a four-wheeled concept vehicle exhibited by Yamaha at Tokyo Motor Show 2007
• Tesseract (software), an optical character recognition engine