Online Official-Style Square-1 Scrambler with Images

[Lucas Garron]

This is based on Eidolon's imagesq.

Apparently no one has quite done this, so I went ahead.
http://cube.garron.us/WCA/proposals/scramble/scramble_square1_img.htm

Most important: Unless you have Eido's script on a local host, you will have to be on the internet to load scramble images.
The image is off by (0,1) because of Eido's specs, and does not contain the E-slice.

 

[Forte]

Cool! It's always good to know when you've scrambled right

The colour scheme change is not working though.

 

[Lucas Garron]

Cool! It's always good to know when you've scrambled right

The colour scheme change is not working though.

It was, although the colorscheme field would reset on reload (you had to input the colors again every time you wanted them). Fixed now.

 

[idpapro]

it would be great if this was integrated into the qqtimer!!

 

[qqwref]

it would be great if this was integrated into the qqtimer!!

qqtimer does not and never will do images. The ratio of extra work/code to extra usefulness is far too large.

 

[idpapro]

it would be great if this was integrated into the qqtimer!!

qqtimer does not and never will do images. The ratio of extra work/code to extra usefulness is far too large.

ok, i understand, thanks for the consideration though!

 

[hr.mohr]

Very nice Lucas!

 

[StachuK1992]

The thing is, with sq-1, one usually knows if they did it right or not, since a lot of turns aren't possible if you mess up previously.

Nonetheless, great job!

 

[Muesli]

Can't you incude '/'s in the scrambles? It can be confusing when to slice the cube.

 

[StachuK1992]

Can't you incude '/'s in the scrambles? It can be confusing when to slice the cube.

Slice after every (x,x) except the last. That's what the pictures seem to show.

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

But Ron always tells us: ") means )/". So slice after each (x,x).

Anyway, it's always nice to be 100% certain you did the scramble correctly

 

[Muesli]

But Ron always tells us: ") means )/". So slice after each (x,x).

Anyway, it's always nice to be 100% certain you did the scramble correctly

I get it.

 

[Lucas Garron]

But Ron always tells us: ") means )/". So slice after each (x,x).

Then apparently the scrambler is wrong, highlighting yet another issue.
I think it does 40 random actions (AUF, ADF, or /), and it's impossible to tell (easily) from the notation if there was a last twist or not.
Rather, the official notation requires a last twist, and the scrambler internally might not.

(I take each final Square-1 state straight out of Jaap's code.)

 

[jfly]

Excellent job Lucas! There's no reason this shouldn't be the new wca scrambler.

And yes, the ambiguities added with removing the "/" from the notation are very annoying. Although I remember porting Jaap's code to java for cct, and I don't recall any such problem with missing trailing slashes. I trust you to be making correct use of Jaap's code, however.

 

[Lucas Garron]

Excellent job Lucas! There's no reason this shouldn't be the new wca scrambler.

And yes, the ambiguities added with removing the "/" from the notation are very annoying. Although I remember porting Jaap's code to java for cct, and I don't recall any such problem with missing trailing slashes. I trust you to be making correct use of Jaap's code, however.

There's one reason: All WCA scramblers should run offline, preferably with no big requirements (e.g. a PHP installation is probably too much).
This is an unofficial restriction by Ron himself.

Also, don't trust me. I totally just took the end of the first appropriate loop I saw.

Can you use the CCT code to (easily) generate Square-1 images from a slimmer jar?

 

[blade740]

Even offline, this scrambler is the same as the official one.

 

[Lucas Garron]

Alright, thanks to some more work by Eido to make port the PHP script to a JS library by a Walter Zorn:

Javascscript-Only Official-Style Square-1 Scrambler with Images

Also available as a single file or a zip with all 3 files.

Problem is, it doesn't seem to work in IE, and I don't know a simple way to fix that.

 

[blade740]

Alright, thanks to some more work by Eido to make port the PHP script to a JS library by a Walter Zorn:

And thanks to qq for cleaning up my code and fixing a few things (including adding back the final (0,0) indicating another / at the end). Teamwork ftw

http://mzrg.com/miniSites/scramblers/sq1_wca.html

Problem is, it doesn't seem to work in IE, and I don't know a simple way to fix that

Deleting IE would be a start.

Edit:
The library I used says it works on IE 4, 5, and 6, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari (among others)

 

[Lucas Garron]

Alright, thanks to some more work by Eido to make port the PHP script to a JS library by a Walter Zorn:

And thanks to qq for cleaning up my code and fixing a few things (including adding back the final (0,0) indicating another / at the end). Teamwork ftw

http://mzrg.com/miniSites/scramblers/sq1_wca.html

Quite nice, qq.

I think

		var stickers = (b.concat(c)).replace(/0/g,colorString[0]).replace(/1/g,colorString[1]).replace(/2/g,colorString[2]).replace(/3/g,colorString[3]).replace(/4/g,colorString[4]).replace(/5/g,colorString[5]);
		document.writeln("<tr><td><font face='Arial' size=3><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;"+scramblestring(i)+"<\/b><\/font><\/td><td>"+"<div style=\"position:relative;height:100px;width:200px;\" id=\"scramble"+i+"\">");
		drawSq(stickers,a,"scramble"+i);
		document.writeln("<\/div><\/td><\/tr>");

is a cleaner way to do the drawing, though.

Also, I probably should have used more descriptive variable names. :rolleyes:

Eido: IE in VirtualBox draws all the pieces red for me. It's not like I care, but Ron might.

 

[blade740]

Red is a color I was using to debug (it's the color set in the beginning, I forgot to take out that line) I'll try to see what's going on there tomorrow.