3Quarks - Applets - Platonic Universe

This applet named Metamorphose is a compact applet for viewing panorama pictures. Here is shows an animated Platonic Universe with the five platonic solids and their three combinations. The applet is written in "pure Java 1.0" and thus available on all Java enabled browsers.

To move the universe, you can use the scroller in the bottom left corner of the applet. The direction and the speed of the movement is adjustable by the scroller. You can move the picture with the mouse too. Simply click on the panaorama and drag the picture with the mouse.

	A German description of two applet parameters based on the example "Platonic Universe". An English version will follow shortly. Please note that the other ten applet parameters are descripted on the page "Metamorphose - Parameter"
	In this example M.C. Escher's woodcut "Metamorphose II" is used as panorma picture in the applet..
	Platonic solids are perfect regular solids with the following conditions: all sides are equal and all angles are the same and all the faces are identical. Here you can find the five platonic solids (tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron) as animated GIF's.

Here you can select between two versions:
	The file Metamorphose.zip (16 kByte) contains the four Java classes Metamorphose, Picture, Panaorma und Scroller. The file includes the source code too. All four classes are needed to run the applet.
	The file PlatonicUniverse-de.zip (456 kByte) contains beside this page the first two pages listet in chapter "See also" with all needed resources. Please note that the pages are in German. An English version will follow shortly.