Puzzle of Hanoi
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Puzzle of Hanoi is an OpenGL screensaver showing
the famous Towers of Hanoi in action. |
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Description
Description
Puzzle of Hanoi is an OpenGL screensaver showing the Towers of
Hanoi.
The Towers of Hanoi are a mathematical-logical problem thought
up in 1883 by the French mathematician Edouard Lucas who also invented
the following little story to describe the problem:
Somewhere
in a temple there live some monks who got to move
a tower of 64 differently sized disks from one bar to another,
using a third bar as a temporary stack. At the beginning all disks
are sorted by size, and in the end they must be sorted the
same way. Now as the disks are very fragile the disks must be moved
one by one and a bigger one may never be laid on a smaller one.
When the monks have finished moving the disks the world ends.
This screensaver doesn't use 64 disks as even with 1000 moves per
second it would last a couple hundred millions of years to move
the whole tower. Instead of this you can choose any number
of disks between 3 and 32 and configure the screensaver to automatically
increase the tower's size when it has been moved completely.
It is even possible to have the current state saved when
the screensaver is terminated so the next time the screensaver resumes
its "work". Screenshots »
Features
- - 3D graphics featuring a slowly moving camera
and light source
- - Freely adjustable number of disks (3-32)
- - Tower grows automatically every time it is solved
- - Saves the current state on exit
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