Dimensions (animation)

Dimensions is a French project that makes educational movies about mathematics, focusing on spatial geometry.^[1] It uses POV-Ray to render some of the animations, and the films are released under a Creative Commons licence.

The film is separated in nine chapters, which follow this plot:

Chapter 1: Dimension two explains Earth's coordinate system, and introduces the stereographic projection.
Chapter 2: Dimension three discusses how two-dimensional beings would imagine three-dimensional objects.
Chapters 3 and 4: The fourth dimension talk about four-dimensional polytopes (polychora), projecting the regular ones stereographically on the three-dimensional space.
Chapters 5 and 6: Complex numbers are about the square root of negative numbers, transformations, and fractals.
Chapters 7 and 8: Fibration show what a fibration is. Complex numbers are used again, and there are circles and tori rotating and being transformed.
Chapter 9: Proof emphasizes the importance of proofs in mathematics, and proves the circle-conservationess of the stereographic projection as an example.

They are available for download in several languages.^[2]

References

^ Alvarez, Aurélien; Leys, Jos (2012), "Dimensions, a Math Movie", Mathematics and Modern Art: Proceedings of the First ESMA Conference, held in Paris, July 19-22, 2010, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics, vol. 18, pp. 11–16, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24497-1_2.
^ http://www.claymath.org/events/news/clay-award-dissemination

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