THE VIDEO SHELF · high-dimensional geometry
Thinking outside the 10-dimensional box
3Blue1Brown visualizes high-dimensional spheres to explain a surprising puzzle about how a sphere fits in a box as dimensions grow. It builds geometric intuition for counterintuitive properties of high-dimensional space.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as the go-to intuitive visualization of high-dimensional geometry, relevant to machine learning, optimization and sphere packing.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- 3Blue1Brown
- Topic
- high-dimensional geometry
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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A trick for visualizing higher dimensions: [VIDEO] Only 383k subscribers. Hmm. Remember to subscribe, comment, and smash that like button. Real Engineering is another great channel. And of course Veritasium and Numberphile.
sillysaurus3 on Hacker News · 2017-10
In What Is a Neural Network?Don't forget 3Blue1Brown's incredible video about visualizing higher dimensions[1]. He's getting to xkcd levels of "Of course there's a relevant video" [1]: [VIDEO]
jedimastert on Hacker News · 2018-07
In Random Points on a SphereThere's a great 3blue1brown video that demonstrates this unintuitive result in a relatively intuitive way: [VIDEO]
kibwen on Hacker News · 2025-07
In New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source
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