Just added to the Classic New World Notes stories section: "—And He Rezzed a Crooked House—", my 2006 post about a mathematics professor (a grad student at the time) who created a tesseract house inspired by Robert Heinlein's classic short story with a similar name. It actually makes more sense (but is still pretty mind-blowing) if you watch the video above.
Created by "Seifert Surface", the avatar of Henry Segerman, the Crooked House remains, like I recently told Charlie Warzel of The Atlantic, one of the most amazing examples of metaverse content:
[I]f you give a user community powerful enough creator tools, what they create in these worlds will be far more interesting than anything a major company can officially create. In terms of the culture of a metaverse environment and the community’s experiences in a place like Second Life, that’s remained true since 2003...
One of my [favorite examples of that] is a mathematician who built a house that exists beyond three dimensions—a home shaped like a tesseract, a four-dimensional hypercube. If you walked through their house it would keep just regenerating in interesting ways and you’d walk through it eternally. It’s mind melting. No game company would ever come up with that. And that was early on...
As for how this tesseract house is even possible, even in a virtual world, you'll just need to read the whole original post for the surprising reveal.
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