Construction
- 0 – A point is a hypercube of dimension zero.
- 1 – If one moves this point one unit length, it will sweep out a line segment, which is a unit hypercube of dimension one.
- 2 – If one moves this line segment its length in a perpendicular direction from itself; it sweeps out a 2-dimensional square.
- 3 – If one moves the square one unit length in the direction perpendicular to the plane it lies on, it will generate a 3-dimensional cube.
- 4 – If one moves the cube one unit length into the fourth dimension, it generates a 4-dimensional unit hypercube (a unit tesseract).
This can be generalized to any number of dimensions. This process of sweeping out volumes can be formalized mathematically as a Minkowski sum: the d-dimensional hypercube is the Minkowski sum of d mutually perpendicular unit-length line segments, and is therefore an example of a zonotope.
The 1-skeleton of a hypercube is a hypercube graph.
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