X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fpenrose.c;h=6e401aa673243b545f90a8fbd8fe719c8b216b81;hb=f65151994eba80ecabcdac6eef6fa0dde7e2d45b;hp=ff8791e6f64076b99a62acbad1a5430624a2e788;hpb=f3e0240915ed9f9b3a61781f5c7002d587563fe0;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/hacks/penrose.c b/hacks/penrose.c index ff8791e6..6e401aa6 100644 --- a/hacks/penrose.c +++ b/hacks/penrose.c @@ -1,6 +1,25 @@ /* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 4 -*- * penrose --- quasiperiodic tilings. */ + +/* As reported in News of the Weird: + + In April, Sir Roger Penrose, a British math professor who has worked + with Stephen Hawking on such topics as relativity, black holes, and + whether time has a beginning, filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit + against the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, which Penrose said copied a + pattern he created (a pattern demonstrating that "a nonrepeating + pattern could exist in nature") for its Kleenex quilted toilet paper. + Penrose said he doesn't like litigation but, "When it comes to the + population of Great Britain being invited by a multinational to wipe + their bottoms on what appears to be the work of a Knight of the + Realm, then a last stand must be taken." + + NOTW #491, 4-jul-1997, by Chuck Shepherd. + http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html + */ + + #if !defined( lint ) && !defined( SABER ) static const char sccsid[] = "@(#)penrose.c 4.00 97/01/01 xlockmore"; #endif @@ -20,9 +39,8 @@ static const char sccsid[] = "@(#)penrose.c 4.00 97/01/01 xlockmore"; * other special, indirect and consequential damages. * * Revision History: - * 10-May-97: jwz@netscape.com: turned into a standalone program. - * 09-Sep-96: Written. - */ + * 10-May-97: jwz@jwz.org: turned into a standalone program. + * 09-Sep-96: Written. */ /*- Be careful, this probably still has a few bugs (many of which may only