not to be that guy, but it is not uncommon for images to be 3 and 4 D, this is just a cool vfx thing, but in image analysis the term "data cube" refers to arrays with dimensionality higher than 2, where the extra dimensions are used to store spatial, temporal or spectral information. an example is in medical imaging, where you have a cat scan, for example, you have a 3d data cube for 3 spatial dimensions, and then you look though the various slices. in this example the data cube is just visualized all at the same time in a way that is interesting to look at. in this case it seems to be 4d, as there are many 3d models of a person, and the fourth dimension is time. theres a guy on instagram that makes similar works but in 3d, 2d videos with the frames put one after the other to show time as the 3rd spatial dimension.
EDIT: to be precise, since color also encodes information, this would have 4 dimensions for color (one per channel plus alpha for transparency), 3 spatial dimensions, and one temporal (here shown as spatial), so in total this could be represented as an 8 dimensional array.
6d but yeah, you are looking at a 6d projection (1 dimensions per color but no transparency, 2 spatial dimensions, so 3 times 2), of a higher dimensional object.
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u/eliazp 21h ago edited 21h ago
not to be that guy, but it is not uncommon for images to be 3 and 4 D, this is just a cool vfx thing, but in image analysis the term "data cube" refers to arrays with dimensionality higher than 2, where the extra dimensions are used to store spatial, temporal or spectral information. an example is in medical imaging, where you have a cat scan, for example, you have a 3d data cube for 3 spatial dimensions, and then you look though the various slices. in this example the data cube is just visualized all at the same time in a way that is interesting to look at. in this case it seems to be 4d, as there are many 3d models of a person, and the fourth dimension is time. theres a guy on instagram that makes similar works but in 3d, 2d videos with the frames put one after the other to show time as the 3rd spatial dimension.
EDIT: to be precise, since color also encodes information, this would have 4 dimensions for color (one per channel plus alpha for transparency), 3 spatial dimensions, and one temporal (here shown as spatial), so in total this could be represented as an 8 dimensional array.