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Hypercube 98 software. The program shows tumbling four-dimensional hypercubes, as well as
some 3D polyhedra, and some 2D snowflakes. A preliminary version of the program (with only
the snowflakes and polyhedra) was developed by Rucker with his CS 116A Computer Graphics
class at SJSU, Spring 1996. As part of her CS Master's degree Writing Project, Farideh
Dormishian added hypercubes to the program and improved it in other ways. The original inspiration for the program was Rucker's desire to
reproduce the appearance of snowflakes he saw falling outside his daughter Georgia's
window during a visit to her apartment in NYC, March, 1996. Then Rucker and Farideh
Dormishian had the idea that the window could just as well look out into hyperspace. There
have been a number of programs which show tumbling wire-frame hypercubes. A
difficult part of what Farideh Dormishian did was to get the hypercubes to appear with solid
faces. The reason this is difficult is that a tumbling hypercube repeatedly turns itself
"inside-out", which makes hidden-face removal a bit tricky.
This is a special shareware release of the software. The
program may be freely recopied, but may not be commercially used or resold without written
permission from Rudy Rucker. You can contact Rucker as: rucker@mathcs.sjsu.edu.
Use WinZip to unzip
hypercube98.zip to your root directory, it will make a Hypercube 98 directory with the
files.
Download the executable for
Farideh Dormishian and Rudy Rucker's Hypercube 98 . Posted June 1, 1998. |