X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xscreensaver;a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fconfig%2Fhypercube.xml;h=41cd0ca9732d1855426f4e2e04a2d001b6a57136;hp=178cd433bf034e068534d241d2149a2dd1ef67d9;hb=019de959b265701cd0c3fccbb61f2b69f06bf9ee;hpb=c1b9b55ad8d59dc05ef55e316aebf5863e7dfa56 diff --git a/hacks/config/hypercube.xml b/hacks/config/hypercube.xml index 178cd433..41cd0ca9 100644 --- a/hacks/config/hypercube.xml +++ b/hacks/config/hypercube.xml @@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ low="0" high="100000" default="10000" convert="invert"/> + + + + + + @@ -22,10 +30,6 @@ low="0" high="20" default="5"/> - - @@ -47,9 +51,13 @@ - + <_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 It has been replaced by the more general "Polytopes" +screen saver, which can display this object as well as others.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 @@ -58,9 +66,8 @@ 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.