The Cubic Surfaces DVD by David A. Madore

The DVD Downloading it To save server bandwidth, the DVD ISO image for burning is made available as a bit torrent: you will need a program such as BitTorrent or Azureus to download it. Once you have BitTorrent (or some other similar program) installed, please give it the following link to download the image: download link for the DVD (bit torrent file) If you absolutely cannot use BitTorrent (e.g., if you are behind a fascist firewall that blocks the bit torrent protocol because it is a form of peer-to-peer), try downloading the previous link without the final .torrent extension in the address: this will fetch the image directly from the server. The ISO image is 610MB in size. Burning it Once you have the ISO image downloaded (it should be called cubic-dvd.iso ), you should use some DVD burning software to rip it. Make sure you burn the image as a raw ISO -9660 image, do not copy this as a file on a DVD (it is already a DVD image, not a file to be included on a DVD image!). Under Linux (or some other Unixen), for example, one might use a command line such as: nice --18 growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=4 -Z /dev/dvd=cubic-dvd.iso . Under Windows, these instructions might be of some help (though they pertain to burning CD 's, I imagine that burning DVD 's has much in common). Under Mac OS X, select Image then Burn Image in the Disk Copy application. For maximal compatibility with certain standalone DVD players, it might be preferable to use a DVD −R (as opposed to DVD +R or DVD ±RW) medium. This is not universally true, however (in fact, I have observed the opposite); and, of course, the medium must be appropriate for the recording drive. Since the image is small enough to fit on a CD , you can try using that medium instead of a DVD (but again, make sure to burn an ISO image, not a CD containing a single file): this might work on certain players, but it generally will not. Your mileage may vary. Buying it ✱ If you don't feel like downloading and burning the DVD yourself, you can also buy it online for 4€, thanks to Ikarios (with whom I am not affiliated, nor do I get any profit from the sales!). Make sure to get the most recent version, though (currently, 2006-10-22). This is mostly convenient in France, although they will also ship to other countries. Notes on the disc's content The videos on the DVD are in the PAL format (720×576, 25 frames per second) which is common in Europe. Hopefully this should not make it difficult to view the DVD elsewhere in the World. Naturally, the image is not region-encoded, copy-protected or content-scrambled in any way. Once you select a video from the DVD menu, it will loop forever: use the buttons on your remote control to return to the menu. To play each video for one minute, in order, highlight the title in the DVD menu (this is only valid starting from version 2006-10-22 of the disc): then you can use your remote control to switch chapters. The version described on this page is that of 2006-10-22. A previous version was released on 2006-10-16. Version 2006-10-22 has the same videos, but differs in the following aspects: a bug was fixed which caused the highlight in the menus not to be visible on certain standalone DVD players, a title (and indication of author's name) was added in the intro sequence, and the possibility was added of viewing all videos sequentially. I plan to make a new version of the DVD , with optional subtitles describing each animation, possibly some time in the future. For the moment, there are no comments whatsoever: please refer to the list below for a very short description of each animation.