On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: xscreensaver > Version: 5.10-1 > Severity: wishlist > > > Hello > > Thei hyperball and hypercube hacks were removed in the recent xscreensaver > release. > > While I admit they are not particularly brilliant compared to the other > hacks available these days they are not too bad either. > > Another reason I liked these hacks is that they are good for testing > line drawing functions in the graphics system. They are excerscising > line drawing quite a bit and flaws in the implementation are often > visible. When there was a problem with line drawing on a particular card > model it was quite easily reporducible using these hacks.
Hi Michal, They were removed from upstream since 5.10, the reason is that they are redundant with polytopes. ( http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html ) Cheers! -- Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. GPG 0xCACAB118 0x7C4DF50D http://joseluisrivas.net/acerca - http://ghostbar.ath.cx/about -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
