Escape from Boxland

Abstract:

A library of common geometric shapes can be used to train our brains for understanding data structure in high-dimensional Euclidean space. This article describes the methods for producing cubes, spheres, simplexes, and tori in multiple dimensions. It also describes new ways to define and generate high-dimensional tori. The algorithms are described, critical code chunks are given, and a large collection of generated data are provided. These are available in the R package geozoo, and selected movies and images, are available on the GeoZoo web site (http://schloerke.github.io/geozoo/).

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Published

Nov. 20, 2016

Received

Mar 10, 2016

DOI

10.32614/RJ-2016-044

Volume

Pages

8/2

243 - 257

CRAN packages used

geozoo, tourr, bitops, geozoo, geozoo

CRAN Task Views implied by cited packages

Multivariate

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    Schloerke, et al., "The R Journal: Escape from Boxland", The R Journal, 2016

    BibTeX citation

    @article{RJ-2016-044,
      author = {Schloerke, Barret and Wickham, Hadley and Cook, Dianne and Hofmann, Heike},
      title = {The R Journal: Escape from Boxland},
      journal = {The R Journal},
      year = {2016},
      note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2016-044},
      doi = {10.32614/RJ-2016-044},
      volume = {8},
      issue = {2},
      issn = {2073-4859},
      pages = {243-257}
    }