X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fconfig%2Fhypercube.xml;h=472430e2e130f843c560c96cd75bd77ff3084917;hb=f8cf5ac7b2f53510f80a0eaf286a25298be17bfe;hp=3ad24e00f344d6fae7d7d04a573670948b912d38;hpb=49f5b54f312fe4ac2e9bc47581a72451bd0e8439;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/hacks/config/hypercube.xml b/hacks/config/hypercube.xml index 3ad24e00..472430e2 100644 --- a/hacks/config/hypercube.xml +++ b/hacks/config/hypercube.xml @@ -1,39 +1,39 @@ - + - - - -
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@@ -47,7 +47,13 @@ + + <_description> +This screen saver was removed from the XScreenSaver distribution as of +version 5.10. It has been replaced by the more general "Polytopes" +screen saver, which can display this object as well as others. + This displays 2D projections of the sequence of 3D objects which are the projections of the 4D analog to the cube: as a square is composed of four lines, each touching two others; and a cube is composed of @@ -56,7 +62,9 @@ eight cubes, each touching six others. To make it easier to visualize the rotation, it uses a different color for the edges of each face. Don't think about it too long, or your brain will melt. -See also "polytopes" for a more general version of this using OpenGL. +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercube +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_polytope Written by Joe Keane, Fritz Mueller, and Jamie Zawinski; 1992.