Mastodawn

XScreenSaver 6.15 is out now. A whopping thirteen new savers this time:
New hack by me, worldpieces.
New Shadertoy hacks brought into the fold: bestill, bubblecolors, darktransit, downfall, driftclouds, goldenapollian, noxfire, prococean, rigrekt, trainmandala, trizm and universeball.

I fixed a bunch of Android bullshit, too (some of which meant needing to reimplement glRotatef etc. from first principles). Android's implementation of GLES is a buggy mess...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5c

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The Doctor 1d ago

@jwz It is immensely reassuring to hear that I am not the only person who finds Wikipedia articles about math incomprehensible.

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Will Henney 22h ago

@drwho @jwz To be fair, the Simple English page is pretty good https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion

Quaternion - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Doctor

@whenney @jwz Sometimes, yeah. Simple Wikipedia is a good resource for some things; nowhere near as comprehensive in scope. And the division still exists.