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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Visualizing the patterns in the sets of complex and real roots of quadratic and cubic equations (II)

A former post two years ago  described some methods to visualize the roots of quadratic and cubic equations. In the present post I will show a new method that can be applied to the real roots of quadratic equations based in my recent previous post regarding the use of projections of 4-dimensional points into 3D.

Basically, we allocate the points inside a 4D tesseract whose center will be the origin of coordinates in the 4-dimensional space and the reference of the position of the points in the internal space of the tesseract, and then the tesseract and its content is projected into 3D. The example below shows every real root for a,b,c \in [-10,10] (a,b,c \in \Bbb Z):



And below there is a zoom showing only the root tuples. As it can be seen, the pattern generated by the set of tuples shows interesting symmetries in the 4D space that can be observed in the 3D projection of the set of points (kind of mesmerizing!). The movement is required because to be able to visualize a complete 4D object through its projection, we need to rotate around one of the 4D axes. By doing so, it is possible to see the 3D "shadow" of the positions of the points in the original 4-dimensional space:


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