I want to get a tesseract tattoo and I want a 2nd (possibly hundreds) opinion. I've asked my girlfriend what she thinks and she: 1)doesn't know what it is, 2) doesn't want to know what it is, 3)doesn't care.



of course it wouldnt be moving like the gif, but I wanted to post something so you know what specific image I'm going for. I've seen the 2d versions (intersecting line models) and that doesn't please me like the 3d model does. I love the tesseract and Carl Sagan's explanation of it (google it if you havn't seen it) and I think it would be great. But with all my tattoos, I want other's opinions on if its a good idea or not.

I think you should think twice. Tesseracts don't look as interesting when projected onto a two-dimensional surface as they do in 3-d animations.

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ive seen it without the animation and I still enjoy it. Just I dont think i wanna get the lines as thick as the image shown

If you have to explain to people what a tesseract is, especially the tettoo artist, then I think you need a different pic.

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It will depend on how good your tatooist is and how good the picture is you take to him. If there is no other shadeing other than the lines or cylinder shapes it could look like a half finished box! Talk to your tatooist and bring him/her some pic's!
Good luck!

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I'm not that big on tattoos, but if you're going to get one, I'd suggest drawing out exactly what you want on paper. Way, way back I did 2-D line drawings of a tesseract with colored pencils for some high school project (this was before personal computer days), and they turned out well. Multiple colors helped with visualization and just looked better.

'Course, I don't know what it would look like on skin.

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