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Thursday, August 13th 2009, 8:33pm

jenn3d as a background option

I am completely ignorant of the work that went in to getting XaoS and Marble to display as a background in KDE 4.3.0, but I greatly appreciate the work and have been having a lot of fun with them. I would like to make a feature request to explore the possibility of adding another math-related program as a background option.

Jenn3d is a program that generates stereographic projections of various polytopes, with a focus on 4D polychora. It allows a user to rotate the shape using all 6-degrees of rotation available in Euclidean 4-space, zoom in to view the polytope at different angles, and even has some neat coloring and animation effects. It doesn't appear to be actively developed (only very minor releases have been made the past year), but the program is very useful in studying polychora and also kinda fun to use (for a math nerd :P). I am not related to the project in anyway, just merely a user. I reiterate I am completely ignorant of the work that would need to go in to doing this, but would it be possible to add jenn3d as one of the background options in KDE4, similar to how marble and XaoS are included right now?

Also a tip: If anyone would like to download and try the program, in addition to the required dependencies, compiling on gcc 4.3 and newer requires a patch be applied that is available on the sourceforge page.
Thank you, and continue the great work being done on KDE! :D

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