Introducing VisualCube - Dynamic Cube Images

[Sa967St]

I thought this was my fault, but the mask is correct. You see that the two 'images' actually differ if you add a y2:

alg=y'FRUR'y'R'U'y2&stage=els

alg=y'FRUR'y'R'U'y2&stage=vh

I deleted my post a few mins ago. I noticed it was doing that because I added a y2 in front of the alg to get green on F and orange on R.

alg=FR'F'R&stage=vh&sch=yogwrb

alg=FR'F'R&stage=els&sch=yogwrb

problem solved =D

 

[macky]

ah well still, use case= instead of alg=.

 

[Sa967St]

ah well still, use case= instead of alg=.

Wow I'm dumb. I didn't notice that I could have just used case= instead of alg= then writing out the inverse. xD
Thanks =D

 

[demma]

Congrats for this excelent script, is there a way to have the lastest code (0.5.2) in sourceforge?
Having some problems to render images in my server.

Thank you very much.

Edit: Which version of PHP do you use? In 5.2.9 the browser shows a broken image and in 5.3.0 it doesn't show anything.
Edit2: Tested in 5.0.0 and 4.3.9 and it doesn't work. Seems I have some problems with the characters because the browser changes the R' to R%27...
Edit3: Uploaded to two different servers and the same result. With cache enabled and dissabled.

 

[Cride5]

Hi, sorry for the delay replying ... quite busy these days.

The script should be able to handle escaped characters within URLs (like %27 instead of ').

Does your server have ImageMagic installed? Find out by typing> convert -version
In order to render cubes properly you want a reacent-ish version. Something like 6.x or above.

 

[demma]

Thanks for your reply, Cride5.
I'm running an Apache in Windows so I think the php extension for that is not avaiable yet.
I will generate my images in your server meanwhile.
Congratulations again, it's insane.

 

[Zarxrax]

Would it be possible to make this NOT anti-alias the colors?

 

[Lid]

Looks like the site is down now ("403 Forbidden error").

 

[Cride5]

It appears to be a server problem. I've raised the issue with my service provider, and hope it can be resolved soon.

Apologies for the service interruption.

 

[Veerexx]

It appears to be a server problem. I've raised the issue with my service provider, and hope it can be resolved soon.

Apologies for the service interruption.

I was looking forward to checking this out :3
I guess I will wait until it is back up
If you want me to host it on: http://speedsolvingrecords.com for you, then sure

 

[Cride5]

Service is now back up as normal. Thanks for reporting the problem.

@Veerexx Anyone is free to host a VisualCube server, as long as the license terms are adhered to. The source code is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcube

 

[teller]

I rely heavily on your Alg Translator...if you had a bitcoin address on there I would surely send you a tip.

 

[rudra]

Awesome. Thank you cride5

 

[Lid]

Down again

But you can always use the backup here, even thou it's an older version (v0.3.0 vs. v0.5.2)
For those that use algtrans you can use the wayback machine or kSim.

 

[Lid]

Looks like the option "mc" is gone(?), any chance of fixing that?

 

[PixelWizard]

Hey together,

Seems like the website which hosts Visualcube and the world-famous ZZ-Texttutorial is down.

Why is this bad?
- Big Cubing websites like algdb.net depend on it
- The content of the site was amazing

Why is it down?
- Not sure but my presentation is on the HN-Frontpage right now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9850914), which causes a lot of traffic to the site, since a lot of images are on the presentation.

Is there an alternative site which provides Visualcube-Images or does anybody knows further information?

Greetings
PixelWizard

 

[StachuK1992]

Use this temporarily

http://stachu.cubing.net/v/?r=x25y-25&stage=fl&bg=t&fmt=png

Relevantly, http://algdb.net is pretty much unusable right now. Oops, sorry.

 

[PixelWizard]

Use this temporarily

http://stachu.cubing.net/v/?r=x25y-25&stage=fl&bg=t&fmt=png

Relevantly, http://algdb.net is pretty much unusable right now. Oops, sorry.

Thanks man! But is it just me or does your link not work?

 

[StachuK1992]

Thanks man! But is it just me or does your link not work?

Works for me, but cubing.net may not be used to a lot of heavy traffic.
I fixed the homepage of algdb.net to use these images, and that works fine for me (albeit a bit slowly).

I have the PHP code. I'll see if I can host visualcube elsewhere really quick with more bandwidth.

EDIT:
I don't have time right now. http://stachu.cubing.net/v/?r=x25y-25&stage=fl&bg=t&fmt=png will have to work for now.

 

[Christopher Mowla]

Is there an alternative site which provides Visualcube-Images or does anybody knows further information?

If you are just using visualcube for the last layer view, next time the site comes up, you can save every image you use and add it to the archive of your website.

Did anyone save this website for offline viewing? The images are contained in the "_files" folder.

To generate last layer perspective images for the future, you can simply make a "paint user-friendly" version for each cube size and manually change the colors of the stickers. I did this for all last layer cube images on the 4x4x4 parity algorithms page. (You may use those images for the 4x4x4, if you want to.)

As you can also see on that page, images like this, I used the program CubeTwister.