Undergraduate Colloquium

Most students have plotted a curve in 3 dimensional space by using a professional software package such as Matlab, SciLab, Octave, Maple, Mathematica, Spacetime or R. But not many students have taken the time to think about how this process works. We'll discuss the simplest mechanism for visualizing curves in 3 space, and just for fun, we'll implement the method using Excel. Then we will extend this idea to obtain "views" of n-dimensional cubes, for n = 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.