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A Working 5D Rubik's Cube
Melinda Green writes "Readers who enjoyed the previous
Slashdot postings regarding the 4-dimensional Rubik's cube called MagicCube4D will
be interested to know that a couple of brilliant developers have
recently created a working 5-dimensional Rubik's
cube. Operating a 5 dimensional puzzle projected all the way down
to a 2D computer screen may seem a hopeless task but the full 5D puzzle
has already been solved
by 3 people. Also noteworthy is the fact that the 4D puzzle has now
been ported to Java and is available as both a full-featured desktop
application and as an Applet."
it requires .NET. Thanks. I don't mind downloading and installing
30MB's of framework just to play with a Rubik's cube. Really, I don't.
.NET developer who
does not), since Visual Studio 2005 builds to .NET 2.0, just about
everything will use it within a year or two. Add to that Vista's
intended use of WinFX (basically just .NET 3) as the core API, and you
can pretty much kiss Win32 goodbye.
.NET has truly abysmal performance. Who cares
about the size on disk - I care far more that it eats memory like
a kid with a box of tic-tacs. (Cue someone parroting that you can get 4GB
for about $250 nowadays, which I think you'll agree completely misses the
point).
.NET; Sooner
or later you will have no choice, so why deprive yourself of
cool toys that (unfortunately) use it now?
I see you've gotten spanked as a troll... Unfortunate. Personally, I don't suspect you of trolling, just stating a fact. However...
Whether you like it or not (and I say this as a
A pity, really, because
Regardless, you would do yourself a favor to get used to
That's just because it's not 4-D Euclidean space. Space-time is still considered as a 4-dimensional manifold, it just has a different metric on it. The term used is Minkowski space.