Spatial Intelligence

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Can you guys rotate 3D cubes? I totally suck at it.
But I did a semi-prof spatial skills test at school and I was pretty good at it, it didn't have any 3D cubes, It was 2D spatial reasoning, so I was lucky. But isnt that weird?

I can do it not with just cubes, but with other things as well.

No problem, rotating around a single axis is boring.

Are they illusions? I don't get it.


Edit: oh, ok, I think I get the second one. The first one is more difficult to observe but I think am getting it.

i am very slow with those questions. my spatial awareness/intelligence must be really low.

@justmax; What is the second figure?

It reminded me of this:

I can rotate it clockwise and anti-clockwise and can change directions whenever I want it.
Can you also change directions of the rotating dancer above?

I have a very hard time with that, as well.

A few months, another WP member said he couldn't remember how many sides a cube had until he actually looked at one. After reading that, it occured to me that I couldn't remember either. I had to look at a cube too in order to remember how many sides they have.

I can't visualize for s**t....I have virtually no visual memory at all, at least when it comes to all things spatial. While i'm not good at any form of higher math, geometry and trig seem totally incomprehensible to me. I have no problem recognizing faces or judging distances though. And oddly enough, my visual memory is in the low average-average range according to all the psychometric tests i've taken.

According to everyone of these same tests, I have *classic* NVLD characteristics. I have never scored above 7 (low average) on the block design subtest and my scores on the object assembly subtests are even lower, usually in the borderline/impaired range. My VIQ subtests are usually in the superior/very superior range, except for arithmetic which is average-high average. All of the aforementioned appear to be fairly common among NLD-ers, so this alone is comparatively untroubling to me.

But I appear to have other very unique and disabling problems with memory....especially long-term semantic memory (which includes VERBAL memory) and these issues have always been my main concern. NONE of these problems have ever manifested themselves on any neuropsycholgical test i've taken (and i've had five professionally-administered ones. But there is reason to believe serious long-term memory impairments can elude the standard neuropsych tests of memory.


In other words, without the memory problems i'm referring to, I could always major in something like history or law if college-level math proved impossible for me. But how can you become a history professor or a lawyer if you remember only the smallest fraction of everything you learned about history/law in school? When it comes to brains, i'm really dealing with the king of all lemons here.

[quote="justMax"]

That hypercube is quite mesmerising to look at....

I like this as well

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFvUaFuv5Uw&feature=related[/youtube]

Now, that is indeed getting difficult to visualise. Damn, I'm hooked, no way I'll sleep tonight.

The cone is a 4-sphere.

Each of the lines with a different color is a different axis.


http://www.learner.org/courses/mathillu ... dimension/

Play with that for a bit.

Watch this too:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYXuHVTS_k[/youtube]

Cross your eyes a little bit.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn7HDBj9ZQQ[/youtube]

Mind: blown at the middle part, around 00:50 in.

had to go one better with the 6D cube didn't you

The stereoscopic one is my favorite.

[img][650:260]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/flatland.png[/img]



[img][650:785]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Schlegel_wireframe_5-cell.png[/img]

[img][650:786]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Schlegel_wireframe_16-cell.png[/img]

[img][650:800]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Calabi-Yau.png[/img]

[img][650:800]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Schlegel_wireframe_8-cell.png[/img]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension