A simple reimplementation of @Mashpoe's ASCII Tesseract Rotation program in Rust.
You can find the original source code on GitHub here, or the YouTube video where the author demonstrated the program here. The original code is based on Steven Richard Hollasch's paper Four-Space Visualization of 4D Objects, which can be found here.
This program simulates a 4-dimensional hypercube (called a "tesseract") rotating in 4-dimensional space, which looks like the "inner cube" moving outward and stretching to become the "outer cube" (a gross oversimplification of 4-dimensional geometry).
The tesseract is then projected into 3-dimensional space, where it is rotated again. This is what causes the entire projection to look like it's spinning while it rotates through 4-dimensional space.
Finally, the tesseract is projected again, this time into 2-dimensional space, which is printed to the terminal with ASCII characters.
Despite the tongue-and-cheek name of the repository, the actual code runs from a main.rs file like any regular Rust project created from running cargo new. Running the code is as simple as downloading the repository, navigating to the project folder in a terminal, and running cargo run. You may need to resize your terminal to fit the animation. To quit the animation, just use ctrl + c to end the program.
The majority of the code currently exists in a tesseract.rs file inside a with_std folder, which is imported into the main.rs file. Eventually, I'd like to reimplement this program using a linear algebra crate (e.g. nalgebra), which I'll put into a separate folder to differentiate the two, and possible provide individual README files for each. I've organized the file structure of this repository to make that addition easy, but at the moment, the organization is admittedly unnecessary.
I am unaware of any licenses on the original code. Therefore, since I firmly believe that choosing any license is better than having no license at all, I have chosen to follow much of the Rust community and license this work under the dual MIT / Apache-2.0 license. If it comes to my attention that the original work is licensed in some way, I'll reevaluate this section and update it as appropriate.
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
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Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.