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Summary:
The objective of the Hyperspace Research Group is the meaningful pictorial presentation of more than three simultaneous variables. Often more than three simultaneous variables must be considered in situations which range from science and engineering through defense and business. Consider presenting, for example, the number of shoes sold in each geographic region of the United States during each month of 1998 - a situation involving four variables. Two- and even three-dimensional graphs or charts are useful when only two or three variables need to be considered, but are insufficient even for this simple situation. If the adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words" can be extended to higher dimensions, a multitude of higher-dimensional problems can be addressed and potentially solved using pictures. Unfortunately, there have been no satisfactory analogs of graphs and charts in higher dimensions. As a result, higher-dimensional presentations usually consist of tables of numbers or lower-dimensional partial presentations. Such tables of numbers and partial presentations make it difficult or impossible to grasp situations as wholes or to think creatively about solutions.
