Imagine a 3-dim putty – a polyhedron which every facet is a putty shell.
A few Qs:
1. Is there already such a thing?
2. How can I easily implement a cube/polyhedron that rotates freely, so that on each facet – I can decide what to show (for example, a putty shell). I really don’t want to dwell on the graphics part, unless I have to. So any easily prepared graphic would be nice, as long as it supports my requirement. Can openGL help me? JOGL? HTML5? (I don’t mind it being in a browser)
Really weird question, not even sure it belongs here, but seems fun anyway…
Have a look here : http://www.jukie.net/bart/blog/popenRWE
So I’d say : start a bash instance with this variant of popen which handles both writes and reads, use the pipes for input and output, forward keyboard strokes to input, and render the output in OpenGL, probably in a rendertexture.
Repeat for each side…
Not html5 or jogl, though. Plain old C or C++.