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    <p>If you go to the following link you'll see a really cool Javascript simulation of a cube that rotates based on your mouse position. </p> <p>Simulation: <a href="http://maettig.com/code/javascript/3d_dots.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here.</a></p> <p><img src="https://imgur.com/e2HTy.png" alt="alt text"></p> <p>If you view the source of the cube rotating script you'll see:</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; /* I wrote this script in a few minutes just for fun. It's not made to win any competition. */ var dimension = 1, a = 0, b = 0, i = 27; while (i--) document.write('&lt;b id="l' + i + '"&gt;+&lt;/b&gt;'); function f() { i = 0; for (x = -dimension; x &lt;= dimension; x += dimension) for (y = -dimension; y &lt;= dimension; y += dimension) for (z = -dimension; z &lt;= dimension; z += dimension) { u = x; v = y; w = z; u2 = u * Math.cos(a) - v * Math.sin(a); v2 = u * Math.sin(a) + v * Math.cos(a); w2 = w; u = u2; v = v2; w = w2; u2 = u; v2 = v * Math.cos(b) - w * Math.sin(b); w2 = v * Math.sin(b) + w * Math.cos(b); u = u2; v = v2; w = w2; var c = Math.round((w + 2) * 70); if (c &lt; 0) c = 0; if (c &gt; 255) c = 255; s = document.getElementById('l' + i).style; s.left = 300 + u * (w + 2) * 50; s.top = 300 + v * (w + 2) * 50; s.color = 'rgb(' + c + ', ' + c + ', 0)'; s.fontSize = (w + 2) * 16 + 'px'; /* The Digg users missed depth sort, so here it is. */ s.zIndex = Math.round((w + 2) * 10); i++; } } /* Using a timer instead of the onmousemove handler wastes CPU time but makes the animation much smoother. */ setInterval('f()', 17); &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>I've looked over it several times, and I still don't understand how the points for the cube are calculated. Is this using "Euler Rotations"? One of the big problems I've had is the use of single letter variable names that mean nothing to me.</p> <p>Would anyone with the requisite math knowledge help explain how the math works behind rotating the cube in this simulation? I'd like to make similar things but when it comes to calculating the points positions, I'm a little lost.</p>
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    1. CODon't you just hate when people use variable names like that without so much as a comment. I hate obfuscated code! It's makes it so much harder to decompile! ;-)
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    2. CO@Lucas Aardvark, to be honest, I don't think he was doing it as a serious attempt to obfuscate his code. I think that his how he just codes, or was attempting to reduce the size of his script. He had a decent amount of dicussion with Digg users over the source and tweaking certain things.
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    3. COI think it is real readable, but you forgot the onmousemove()event, so the only question was: how a and b are set
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