HAL9000 Desktop

Here’s a series of screenshots I’ve taken in sequence of how I recreated a recursive like effect on the cube faces of my current XGL & Beryl desktop. The process is quite simple;

1. take a screenshot of your desktop with your preferred background image.
2. apply this image to the top & bottom faces of the cube.
3. rotate the cube to desired position, and take another screenshot.
4. goto 2 and repeat.

The original image I started off with is that of the character Dave Bowman inside the central core of the HAL9000 computer, from the sci-fi classic “2001: A Space Odyssey”.