Very noob question.

[ElectricDoodie]

What's the difference between "Inverse" and "Mirror" algorithms?

This is what I think it is:
-Inverse: The backwards version of an algorithm. If you did it after an algorithm, it would undo that algorithm, back to it's previous state.
-Mirror: The regular algorithm, but done on the opposite side. If you do an algorithm on your right hand, you would then do it on your left hand, if the cube was rotated 180 degrees, instead of rotating the cube, and doing the algorithm normally.

If I'm wrong, let me know.

And yes, I do expect to get flamed for this.

 

[Stefan]

Inverse - reflected in time (doing it backwards)
Mirror - reflected in space (left<->right or front<->back or diagonally or whatever)

Next time please put the question in the title instead of using a useless title like you did here.

 

[Kirjava]

The alg translator should help you understand how they all work.

 

[cmhardw]

The alg translator should help you understand how they all work.

That's very cool, but I think it's more fun to know how that translator works

Chris

 

[Kenneth]

Sometimes the mirror and the inverse is the same alg, like in Niklas:

R U' L' U R' U' L

 

[hawkmp4]

That's very cool, but I think it's more fun to know how that translator works

Chris

I was about to post that. That's one of my favorite links, to use for myself and to give to others.

To the OP: If the word mirror is getting you hung up, replace every instance of 'mirror' with 'reflection.' I don't know if that will help you, but that cleared things up for me.

 

[Enter]

Inverse - reversed in time
Mirror - reversed in space

that is some epic stuff :fp

 

[irontwig]

Inverse - reversed in time
Mirror - reversed in space

that is some epic stuff :fp

Why the face palm?

 

[ElectricDoodie]

Thanks everyone for the explanation.
Thanks for those links, also. They were definitely helpful.

So, I pretty much had it right. That's good.

 

[Reisen Bunny]

Inverse - reflected in time (doing it backwards)
Mirror - reflected in space (left<->right or front<->back or diagonally some way)

Next time please put the question in the title instead of using a moronic useless title like you did here.

^^

 

[ElectricDoodie]

Inverse - reflected in time (doing it backwards)
Mirror - reflected in space (left<->right or front<->back or diagonally some way)

Next time please put the question in the title instead of using a moronic useless title like you did here.

lolno.

 

[FatBoyXPC]

OP: The easiest way to do a mirror that I've found is get it into muscle memory with a current hand, then learn it with your other hand making the same muscle movements. Such as Sune: you can think of it as "up pull down pull up pull pull down" so do that with your left and you have anti sune

Stefan: Shouldn't it be reversed in sequence, not time?

theace: That question doesn't even belong here and you can look that up yourself.

 

[blah]

Stefan: Shouldn't it be reversed in sequence, not time?

Record a video of the execution of an algorithm. Now play it backwards.

 

[TrollingHard]

If you know how to perform and feel how a right hand alg feels, say
R U2 R' U2 R F R U R' U' F' R U2,

It's really easy to perform the mirror of it!

 

[BigSams]

I this link http://www.cubefreak.net/other/glossary.html.