Rescalable Real-Time Interactive Computer Animations

Code for an interactive version of

The Optiverse

showing the minimax sphere eversion

The Optiverse is a computer-graphics video, showing an optimal way to turn a sphere inside-out. Most of the scenes of the movie were produced with custom software to display the computed homotopy (sequence of surfaces in 3D). This software is now available for use on Unix, Windows or Mac machines. Please select the version appropriate for your machine. You will then have an executable file "avn" and a datafile "h2d78.mov" describing the geometry of the eversion. Executing "avn h2d78" will start the program, an interactive version of The Optiverse. Move the mouse to control the rotation speed, hit 'm' to start and stop the homotopy, and read the heads-up display to find other options. Hit the escape key to quit.