I had a brainstorming experiment, essentially about the types of phenomenon that appear in a 2d image of a 3d environment (aka our vision, but also films and photos in general), and how they might transfer into a 3d image of a 4d environment (aka reality maybe).

the most obvious examples I could think of were object overlapping and size expansion/contraction, both phenomenon caused by the 3d positioning and movement of the "2d" objects, that can't be properly expressed on the 2d plane. as potential real world examples, I could think of quantum tunneling for overlapping, and thermal expansion for size expansion/contraction.

is there any novelty to this idea? the concept of thermal energy potentially being an expression of spatial 4-dimensional distance between objects? are there any comparable phenomenon that I missed? am I schizophrenic?