The program that generates pictures

[Musturd]

I remember once seeing a thread linking to a webpage or program that could generate a nice picture of a cube from an input of sticker colors.
I'm in the process of finding good F2L algorithms and I want pictures for each case.
I don't like the cube explorer generated pictures, though. (they are useful for setting up situations, but not for looking at)

Maybe such a thing doesn't exist and I have to program it myself or use MSPaint.

 

[Nukoca]

I remember once seeing a thread linking to a webpage or program that could generate a nice picture of a cube from an input of sticker colors.
I'm in the process of finding good F2L algorithms and I want pictures for each case.
I don't like the cube explorer generated pictures, though. (they are useful for setting up situations, but not for looking at)

Maybe such a thing doesn't exist and I have to program it myself or use MSPaint.

Getpaint.net

One of the plugins there for Paint.NET can generate cube images.

 

[byu]

ImageCube
http://www.cubezone.be/imagecube.html

 

[PatrickJameson]

http://solvethecube.110mb.com/view/

Edit: Same as above but with an algorithm input option.

 

[Musturd]

Thanks everyone!

 

[sergio]

http://software.rubikscube.info/icube/

The output of this one looks great, especially if it's a PNG image, plus it supports 2x2x2 up to 7x7x7.

 

[blah]

How about some cool stuff like this?

 

[sergio]

How about some cool stuff like this?

yeah, looks very cool, but I find it kinda confusing

 

[Musturd]

Thanks for joining just to tell me, sergio!
How do you generate the images, blah?

 

[Lucas Garron]

http://software.rubikscube.info/icube/

 

[sergio]

Thanks for joining just to tell me, sergio!
How do you generate the images, blah?

through an HTTP GET request. you put that http://software.rubikscube.info/icube/icube.txt somewhere with the files in your webserver (rename it to icube.php), then you can create an image by placing "img" HTML tags like this one:

<img src="icube.php?n=2&fl=yyyybbbbrrrr&f=png" />

a little explanation of the parameters used here:
n = 2 <- tells we are drawing a 2x2x2 cube. by default, it draws a 3x3x3 one.
fl <- these are the stickers. you will put the 2x2x2 visible stickers (2 for the upper layer, 2 for the front layer and 2 for the right layer), y being yellow, b blue and r red
f = the file format for the image we are generating, in this case png (it could be gif or jpg, gif being the default, if I remember well)

Its page http://software.rubikscube.info/icube/ contains more info on its usage, more params options, size options and the alike. Feel free to read it more carefully (I just came across that page last night, so I am still learning what it can do myself heh. I have to say I am really impressed with Josef Jelinek's work. I really liked that piece of code ). Hope this helps.

 

[theace]

How the heck do I generate images in firefox? I'm a noob with servers.

 

[rahulkadukar]

How the heck do I generate images in firefox? I'm a noob with servers

You either have to host the PHP script on your local machine, generate the images and use them on your webpage OR
Find a server where they are already hosted and call them from your webpage.

 

[rahulkadukar]

Getpaint.net

One of the plugins there for Paint.NET can generate cube images.

Link for plugin please

 

[theace]

How?