Simulation of 4D Creature's Perception

A demonstration of a 4D renderer that projects a four-dimensional scene onto a 3D retinal volume to preserve spatial information.

This is a demo video for a 4D renderer I've been working on. For a long time I've thought about what a 4D creature would perceive and how close we could get to seeing what they see. How close could we get to seeing a 4D space, something we were never meant to see. The way I see things, this is closer to that than anything I've seen implemented before. It's a perspective projection of a 4D scene the way a retina or camera sensor would receive it and it retains the full 3d information unlike most 4D projections which usually only retain the vertices and edges. The reason this projection is hard to visualize is because the outside obscures the inside so that you only see a small slice of the projection at a time at the surface if its rendered as an opaque object. A 4D creature would have access to another vantage point in a 4th dimension so that they can see the whole projection without parts of it obstructing other parts. We cannot do that, but we can render the projection as a semi transparent fog so that it almost doesn't matter that parts of it obstruct other parts because we can see all parts at the same time. Therefore we can still gather all the same information that a 4D creature would gather by perceiving its world.