http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2005/04/01/hypercubed/ Incoherent chatter on issues related to science, computing, and philosophy. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2005/04/01/hypercubed/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 Hypercubed Blog » Blog Archive » Using POV-RAY to display four dimensional objects Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:09:27 +0000 http://www.hypercubed.com/wordpress/?p=27#comment-1132 [...] In early Dec. 1999 I purchased the hypercubed.net domain name (followed shortly by hypercubed.com in April). While working on the look an feel of the hypercubed website I wanted to create some graphics of hypercube 3D projections to decorate the front page. But I didn’t want a simple picture of a hypercube I wanted it to rotate four dimensionally. I could have simply created a few images of a hypercube by hand and combine them into an animated gif but first my graphics skills were (are) very poor.  Plus it wouldn’t be very cool. So I decided to create a POV-RAY script to create hypercubes for me. The script I made didn’t simply draw a hypercube but was actually a set of macros that allowed me to define and view projections of any four dimensional object.  Using the macros I was able to create the hypercube animated gifs that still adorns the hypercubed.com website today.  In March 2000 (6 years now) I wrote a how-to article documenting my POV-RAY macros for visualizing four dimension objects.  This page has been sitting on the hypercubed.com, relativity unnoticed, ever since.  So here for your retro viewing pleasure is the original text of that article.[...] [...] In early Dec. 1999 I purchased the hypercubed.net domain name (followed shortly by hypercubed.com in April). While working on the look an feel of the hypercubed website I wanted to create some graphics of hypercube 3D projections to decorate the front page. But I didn’t want a simple picture of a hypercube I wanted it to rotate four dimensionally. I could have simply created a few images of a hypercube by hand and combine them into an animated gif but first my graphics skills were (are) very poor.  Plus it wouldn’t be very cool. So I decided to create a POV-RAY script to create hypercubes for me. The script I made didn’t simply draw a hypercube but was actually a set of macros that allowed me to define and view projections of any four dimensional object.  Using the macros I was able to create the hypercube animated gifs that still adorns the hypercubed.com website today.  In March 2000 (6 years now) I wrote a how-to article documenting my POV-RAY macros for visualizing four dimension objects.  This page has been sitting on the hypercubed.com, relativity unnoticed, ever since.  So here for your retro viewing pleasure is the original text of that article.[...]

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