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A computer-based system and method for displaying a workspace of greater effective area than that of the display screen using a four-dimensional graphical user interface employing real-time texture mapping. According to the present invention, the user selects a number of workspaces to be displayed.

A computer-based system and method for displaying a workspace of greater effective area than that of the display screen using a four-dimensional graphical user interface employing real-time texture mapping. According to the present invention, the user selects a number of workspaces to be displayed. Each selected workspaces is then texture mapped to a polygonal surface. Then the surfaces are displayed at orientations to form a polyhedron with a workspace on each face. Each face may be translucent, so that workspaces otherwise hidden by that face are visible. The polyhedron rotates under the user\s control so that each face is presented to the user. It is this combination of a three-dimensional figure with real-time rotation and texture mapping that gives this “Four-Dimensional Graphical User Interface”its name.

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A computer system having a graphical user interface (GUI) system for simultaneously displaying a plurality of windows, comprising: means for texture mapping the windows to a number of polygonal surfaces; and means for displaying said texture mapped polygonal surfaces at respective orientations to fo

A computer system having a graphical user interface (GUI) system for simultaneously displaying a plurality of windows, comprising: means for texture mapping the windows to a number of polygonal surfaces; and means for displaying said texture mapped polygonal surfaces at respective orientations to form a polyhedron, said polyhedron thereby appearing to be comprised of a number of faces, each of said faces comprising one of the windows, and thereby permitting a user to simultaneously view more than one of the windows.