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Wow. Until I watched this demo, I hadn't realized how much I missed the productions of the Future Crew, Triton and others a few years back. If you don't know what I'm talking about, a "demo" in this sense is a demonstration of someone or some group's awesome graphics coding power, usually accompanied by music. State of Mind is no exception. It's a very fast-paced, hip montage of 3D graphics, old film footage and really nice film-ish effects. No description will do this demo justice, though. Take the time to download it and you'll understand what I'm talking about. There's a very high coolness factor here. State of Mind won 2nd place at The Party '98 demo competition in Denmark.

This demo runs under X11 or SVGAlib. If you run it with root permissions in X, it'll run in DGA (fullscreen) mode.

License: free

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time. With stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope. It has many features, including showing constellations, and much more.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

• OpenGL
• GLU
• GLUT

A collection of simple games and other none-too-serious programs. Most of these are text-only.

Steve's Toys currently contains: A Word-Search puzzle generator, a clone of the classic "Guess Animals" game, Flamer - a random flame generator, 3D TicTacToe, and "Bank of Daddy".

License: free

Sticker Book is a game for kids where
you put stickers on a scene. It has
many options and you can add new
scenes.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

• Gtk
  
• Imlib
  

The game here is to see whether you can 'see' the 4D hypercube as a proper rigid shape. Tesseract Trainer generates a full screen real time display of a rotating tesseract - the equivalent of the cube in 4 dimensions. This app also adds point textures, which give you a feel of what each of the eight faces are doing. There's a stereoscopic option which adds 3D depth to the projection from 4D, music and numerous options to play with. I'm very keen to get feedback as to whether anyone can see the 4D effect here.

The application contains a number of unique features. Point textures convey the orientation of each of the faces as the hypercube rotates. The two invariant planes of the rotation are shown. Any number of faces can be drawn, so each can be followed in turn. The facets of each face can be textured, and faces on each axis are shown in different colours to distinguish them. A manual is provided in PDF format, together with key control help whilst the application is running. Display resolution can be selected to match the display. Finally, some experimental seven-time music creates a bit of atmosphere.

License: shareware ($8)

Additional System Requirements: Hardware 3D acceleration pretty much essential

It's a clock in Klingon. Klingon numbers, Klingon text and a verbal description of the time.

Think Nine O'Clock and 15 minutes except in Klingon.

License: free