3D videos and movies have been on a raging charge lately, but when fourth dimension (4D) came into play, nobody really knows how it actually looks like, what’s more when we need to comprehend it. Don Whitaker has put his imagination onto the line, and created what he think is the fourth dimensional video. Sadly… my mind can’t compute what I just saw in the video above.

Whitaker, a nature enthusiast, used his footage of the beautiful Oregon coastline as source material, before mutating it into the surreal and haunting scenes above. Whitaker’s script—written in Processing, an open source programming language geared for the visual arts—takes a vertical slice of a video frame, stacks it horizontally, and then takes another vertical slice from the next frame. The result is footage that is stretched across both time and space. “I like to think that this is what you might see if you looked at our world from a spot in the fourth dimension,” Whitaker explains.

“As the video advances, the spot we are seeing moves through space.” he notes. “Normally as a video advances we move through time, so we’ve sort of swapped the two.”

[Don Whitaker via Gizmodo]