Message #32

From: David Vanderschel <DvdS@Austin.RR.com>
Subject: Fwd: This ‘list’ for MagicCube4D
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 15:40:19 -0500

I had sent the appended message a couple weeks ago.
Melinda responded, telling me about the MC4D Group and
requesting that I repost my message on the Group’s
list. So here it is. (I suspect she wanted y’all to
see the comments I made in my last paragraph.)

But there is much more to this story, as you will see
from my next posting.

Regards,
David V.

—– Original Message —–
From: "David Vanderschel" <DvdS@Austin.RR.com>
To: <green@superliminal.com>; "Olav Bakke" <ekornbakke@hotmail.com>; <hatch@hadron.org>; <ejb@ql.org>; <roice@bigfoot.com>; <roger.breitenstein@starfish.com>; <hydra69@ugrad.physics.mcgill.ca>; <jukumpu@HotPop.com>; <christian.lundkvist@telia.com>; <Jonathan.Vaughan@pigroup.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 4:55 PM
Subject: This ‘list’ for MagicCube4D

Since I have received no messages from any of y’all in
over a year, I am wondering if I have somehow fallen
off of this informal mailing list or if a better
alternative to it has been introduced.

I would have thought that the SlashDot article would
have produced some ‘traffic’ here. I note that there
is now a link to it on the MagicCube4D Web site and
that someone has responded (effectively) to the
‘plaint that the old color scheme on the site was
poor. (I really appreciated that bit of JavaScript
code someone posted for ‘decoloring’ a page, as it is
useful on far more sites than just the old MagicCube4D
one.)

Regarding the general tone of the comments from the
SlashDotters, I was struck by how few seemed to
actually understand what they were looking at and how
many wanted to dismiss the idea with flippant remarks.
It may well be that the site could benefit from a more
thorough exposition of how to interpret the image the
program produces and how to understand it as the
projection of the 4D analog to Rubik’s Cube. This is
not actually an easy thing to do, but I think I could
contribute effectively on that front if anyone is
interested.

Regards,
David V.