Comments on: Fun for all ages, dimensions.

Fun for all ages, dimensions.

Eideteker — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:15:05 -0800

Topology and Geometry Software by Jeff Weeks.

By: geos

geos — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:38:16 -0800

he's a student of bill thurston who is of independent means and apparently decided he'd rather not go the academic route. he's been involved with recent efforts to measure the global topology of the universe.

By: LSK

LSK — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:00:36 -0800

I played Torus Games a while back. I recall that the implementation of chess was awkward.

By: wittgenstein

wittgenstein — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:16:04 -0800

Jeff Weeks' stuff is fantastic. I can't believe this hasn't been posted on Metafilter before.

By: leahwrenn

leahwrenn — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:39:09 -0800

I wish they'd update some of the programs---especially Kali---which just won't run on a remotely recent mac.

By: Astragalus

Astragalus — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:34:46 -0800

I have to forward to this post because it is about one of the coolest open source math/geometry projects I've ever seen, Jenn 3d (not that I've seen too many of them...). Scroll down on that last link...