Re: Rubik's Cube Solver

First, a few requests:

How's about making sure I don't use more than 9 of a color?

And how's about for generating a random cube?

How's about for a reset button, so i don't have to restart the app after I mess up?

Now I've gone through picking colors twice, and made sure i only had 9 of everything, and I still got the error about 9 color or something.

As this looks interesting, I'd appreciate it if you could fix this, or help me with a cube configuration.

Here is a screen shot of my cube.

update: excuse me? Did you get this thing to do what it claims? Can you help me do the same? All I keep getting is the error shown in the image. I have abstained from voting until I get a reply from the author (i figure he can help me get it to run).

update: Thank you jsprat. This app solves this cube in 93 moves, that's sweet. ++SixKiller.

update: nice update SixKiller. Ovids reply makes mine sound a lot harsher than it really is. I was honestly being sincere, but whatever

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Re: Re: Rubik's Cube Solver by jsprat (Curate) on Aug 01, 2002 at 17:29 UTC
podmaster, the cube shown in the screenshot is invalid. Note the orange colored squares on the top and the front. Each of these three sub-cubes has two orange sides. Also, the center blue square is opposite the center white square, but one of the blue subcubes has a white side (not possible - the centers always stay opposite each other). If you had a cube that looked like this, it would be unsolvable. Maybe the program could give a better message if the cube is invalid? Anyway, ++SixKiller Update: (link removed) Here was a solvable cube. The puzzle is created with six 180 degree turns, the script solves it in 93 moves. The next step is to test all possible combinations ;-) Update 2: Removed link to solvable cube	[reply]
Re: Re: Rubik's Cube Solver by Ovid (Cardinal) on Aug 01, 2002 at 17:01 UTC
Yes, crazy, you can bring up all of those points, but a bit of acknowledgement of an impressive feat would have been nice. :) Cheers, Ovid Join the Perlmonks Setiathome Group or just click on the the link and check out our stats.	[reply]