How can I create a possible position on these cubes?

[David Weisiger]

Hey everyone, I'm making a t-shirt design for my Rubik's cube club at school. Our school initials are TJHSST and we're putting that on 3 different cubes. I want to be able to keep the letters on the cube's, while maintaining a possible, solvable state. Can someone find out a position that is solvable, and has the letter's imprinted on them like in the links? Also, please tell me how you did this for future reference, thanks!

-Cube 1
-Cube 2
-Cube 3

David Weisiger

 

[AngeL]

Do all 6 letters have to be displayed on the cube at once? Because the images you linked won't have all 6 simultaneously.

 

[FatBoyXPC]

You could just BLD method it sighted? Cube explorer has a pattern generator thing.

 

[vcuber13]

cube has a white yellow corner, so with a normal colour scheme it wont work

 

[TEGTaylor]

cube has a white yellow corner, so with a normal colour scheme it wont work

Depends on what normal is. Almost anyone in Japan would have this.

 

[maggot]

i think i understand what you mean. this is not possible as far as i know. the only thing you can do is setup OLL, then the inverse of the OLL is 'solvable' (forced PLL/AUF skip). but this would only be understood by a cuber who knew ZBLL.
for example. (from solved cube)
T = F U R U' R' F' (you want the edges to look pretty but they dont in this case)
T = F R' F' R U R U' R' (looks nicer as the block to the left and right of the T are pairs, but the top of the T leaves a block and a lonely corner)

there is only one H - M' U M' U M' U M' U2 M' U M' U M' U M' (leaves the edge in the correct place, but flipped)

if you are not looking to use OLL, there is no way to produce these patterns on a regular cube. you would have to resticker the cube to your liking.

i think it might be a lot easier to produce on a 7x7, as you can manipulate the centers with commutators (however that brings on a whole new set of problems)

 

[David Weisiger]

i think i understand what you mean. this is not possible as far as i know. the only thing you can do is setup OLL, then the inverse of the OLL is 'solvable' (forced PLL/AUF skip). but this would only be understood by a cuber who knew ZBLL.
for example. (from solved cube)
T = F U R U' R' F' (you want the edges to look pretty but they dont in this case)
T = F R' F' R U R U' R' (looks nicer as the block to the left and right of the T are pairs, but the top of the T leaves a block and a lonely corner)

there is only one H - M' U M' U M' U M' U2 M' U M' U M' U M' (leaves the edge in the correct place, but flipped)

if you are not looking to use OLL, there is no way to produce these patterns on a regular cube. you would have to resticker the cube to your liking.

i think it might be a lot easier to produce on a 7x7, as you can manipulate the centers with commutators (however that brings on a whole new set of problems)

Thanks for the good reply. For everyone else, I was aware of the white + yellow edge piece and corner but that didn't really matter at the time being (well maybe a little). I just wanted a position that would have those letters.
Getting back on topic, since you can't create all of those letters on a 3x3, would someone (because I'm a complete idiot) please figure out what would be the smallest cube possible that allows for these letters? Thanks so much guys!

David Weisiger

 

[Kynit]

You could easily use commutators to do this on the centers of a 5x5; it might be possible to do it with some clever commutators on a 3x3 but it's a lot harder.

 

[Sa967St]

It's not possible to do the UFR corner on this one, no matter what colours you choose.

 

[maggot]

You could easily use commutators to do this on the centers of a 5x5; it might be possible to do it with some clever commutators on a 3x3 but it's a lot harder.

huh?

so you want each letter reflected on each side ? or one side solved (U) and L + F faces with letters presented? if you want a ONE cube with a letter on each side, you would have to resticker the cube, im just not sure how this would be possible on any cube... if you want 2 letters on 1 cube for a total of 3 cubes with a solved side and 2 adj. faces with a letter, im not really too sure. it would take some time for me to practice the commutators on a 5x5 to see if it would be possible. im not sure excatly if it is possible.

 

[dimwmuni]

It's possible to do the first cube on a 3x3.

 

[maggot]

It's possible to do the first cube on a 3x3.

alg?

 

[FatBoyXPC]

It took me about 10 minutes to do this. I didn't use an algorithm generator or anything of the sort, I just did it as F2L and LL (it gets a bit confusing, but those good at match the scramble should be able to do this).

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[Godmil]

Why don't you just dismantle the cube and reassemble it in the correct positions, would only take 5mins.

 

[Stefan]

we're putting that on 3 different cubes.

Do all 6 letters have to be displayed on the cube at once?

Sigh.

It's not possible to do the UFR corner on this one, no matter what colours you choose.

Why don't you just dismantle the cube and reassemble it in the correct positions, would only take 5mins.

Sigh.

HUGE PICTURE for no good reason whatsoever

[thread=19636]Sigh.[/thread]

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