Exhibit No. 017 · Animation
The four-dimensional sequel to the spinning hexagon: a ball bouncing inside a rotating hypercube.
> write a single HTML file (JavaScript, canvas or three.js) of a ball bouncing inside a rotating tesseract4D rotation and projection, plus collisions against walls you can only see in projection.
@Yuchenj_UW (original asked for Python) · 2025
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Prompt wording adapted from the original.
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One attempt per test, with no edits after running. Where a first attempt didn’t work, the test was answered once more and the exhibit says so; answers that still don’t work are not shown. Run inside a Claude Code agent session, which includes its own system prompt, rather than the raw API.
Save the answer as a .html file and open it in a browser to compare it with the one above.
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