H4 600-Cell

600-cell alignment, non-crystallographic 4D symmetry
symmetrydim 44 metrics

What It Measures

Non-crystallographic symmetry in 4-byte windows.

Projects each group of 4 consecutive bytes onto the 120 roots of H4 — the vertices of a 600-cell, the most complex regular polytope in 4D. The roots come in three families: 8 axis-aligned, 16 half-integer (all coordinates ±1/2), and 96 "golden" vectors built from even permutations of (0, 1/2, 1/2phi, phi/2). H4 is the largest non-crystallographic Coxeter group, governing the symmetry of 4D polytopes with icosahedral cross-sections.

Metrics

diversity_ratio

Fraction of the 120 roots actually used. Sunspot, Kepler non-planet, and speech "zero" all score 0.233 (28 of 120 roots). Logistic period-2 uses a single root (0.008). With 120 roots available, the diversity ceiling is much lower than for E8 (240 roots) — most data concentrates on a small fraction of the 600-cell's directions.

normalized_entropy

Uniformity of root usage. BTC returns (0.640) and neural net dense weights (0.638) have the most uniform distributions — their high-entropy byte structure genuinely samples the 4D root system. Periodic orbits and Morse code score near 0.0. The entropy range (0 to 0.64) is wider than H3's, reflecting the larger root system's greater capacity to differentiate sources.

lattice_closure

How closely does the trajectory through H4 root space return to its starting point? Fibonacci QC (1.0) and Logistic Period-2 (1.0) close perfectly. Random Steps (0.0) never returns. Evolved via ShinkaEvolve.

edge_walk_fraction

Fraction of consecutive root transitions that follow edges of the 600-cell graph. Fibonacci QC (1.0) and Logistic Period-2 (1.0) always follow edges. Random Steps (0.0) never does. High fractions mean the dynamics respect the polytope's adjacency structure. Evolved via ShinkaEvolve.

closure_fidelity

Not yet in the atlas — recently added. Evolved via ShinkaEvolve.

mean_walk_length

Not yet in the atlas — recently added. Evolved via ShinkaEvolve.

Atlas Rankings

diversity_ratio
SourceDomainValue
Solar Wind IMFastro0.6562
Solar Wind Speedastro0.6562
Sunspot Numberastro0.6562
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Constant 0xFFnoise0.0312
Logistic r=3.2 (Period-2)chaos0.0312
Logistic r=3.5 (Period-4)chaos0.0312
edge_walk_fraction
SourceDomainValue
Quantum Walkquantum0.6893
Logistic Edge-of-Chaoschaos0.6625
Wigner Semicirclequantum0.6218
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Constant 0xFFnoise0.0000
Square Wavewaveform0.0000
Critical Circle Mapchaos0.0000
lattice_closure
SourceDomainValue
Wigner Semicirclequantum1.0000
L-System (Dragon Curve)exotic1.0000
Hénon-Heileschaos1.0000
···
Constant 0xFFnoise0.0000
Square Wavewaveform0.0000
Critical Circle Mapchaos0.0000
normalized_entropy
SourceDomainValue
Temperature Driftclimate0.8656
Poisson Countsexotic0.8647
BTC Returnsfinancial0.8598
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Constant 0xFFnoise-0.0000
Logistic r=3.2 (Period-2)chaos-0.0000
Logistic r=3.5 (Period-4)chaos-0.0000

When It Lights Up

H4 shares its 4-byte window size with D4 Triality but probes a completely different symmetry: D4's 24 roots are crystallographic (they tile via lattice translations), while H4's 120 roots are non-crystallographic (they cannot). This means H4 detects structural preferences that D4 misses — specifically, whether the data's 4-byte patterns prefer golden-ratio-related directions. In practice, H4's two metrics provide a coarse separation: high normalized_entropy signals (financial, neural network weights, noise) vs. low (periodic, symbolic). Its unique role is completing the non-crystallographic Coxeter family alongside H3.

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