Hyper-spacial ray-tracer

[Rouslan Korneychuk]

I have been working on something I thought was interesting and I wanted 
to know what other people think. It's a ray-tracing library than can 
work with any number of spacial dimensions greater than two. It's a 
Python package that uses Pygame.

The project and a screenshot are at: https://github.com/Rouslan/NTracer

For those not familiar with the concept of hyper-space: a simple example 
of a three-dimensional object is a cube. A two-dimensional analogue is a 
square. With one dimension, it would be a line (and with zero 
dimensions, a point). Although our universe only has three spacial 
dimensions (ignore theoretical physics for a moment), there is actually 
no reason why it can't be any other number, and so you can go the other 
way. A four-dimensional analogue of a cube is a tesseract, and when 
generalized for any number of dimensions it's called a hypercube.

Of course, it's really hard to imagine anything with more than three 
dimensions, which is precisely why I wrote this library. The screenshot 
in the link shows a three-dimensional cross-section of a six-dimensional 
hypercube at a particular angle. So far, all the library can draw is a 
scene with one hypercube (although you can position the camera anywhere 
you want), but I'm planning to add support for complex scenes where you 
can put various kinds of shapes with arbitrary transformations and 
materials (color and opacity at least).