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NxN BLD

isaacvr

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Hello, I have an app (for Windows) and inside the Timer section, there is a tool called "BLD Helper" that is designed to give you the memo of any NxN. If that can be useful and can bring you some value, please try it here and give me some feedback about it, thanks in advance.

The naming convention for making cicles is similar to the 4x4. Since the edges cannot be in any position and there have only a possible orientation for the same spot, there is only needed a single letter for them. That letter correspond to the rightmost sticker in the clockwise direction. Orbits are represented in the next 5x5 matrix

For 5x5:
corner Aedge1 Aedge2 Acorner B
edge2 Dcenter1 Acenter2 Acenter1 B
edge1 Dcenter2 D---center2 Bedge1 B
center1 Dcenter2 Ccenter1 Cedge2 B
corner Dedge2 Cedge1 Ccorner C

The missing spots are are used on the adjacent faces.

About the centers, there is a pattern and is a rectangle that can be represented with the A letter for each type of center.

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... and so on. Red is the A letter, orange is B, green C and blue D. Taking that into account, please share your thoughts in the comments. Thanks a lot for the time.


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Nice app, I like the blind helper. Is there anyway that you can specify the orientation for blind ? I don't use the standard white top, green front orientation for blind.
Thanks for your feedback. Right now the orientation cannot be modified, but I'll take it into account.
 
Nice app, I like the blind helper. Is there anyway that you can specify the orientation for blind ? I don't use the standard white top, green front orientation for blind.
I have some good news:

I'm currently improving the BLD helper and one of the tasks is this, to add options to set the orientation, so I added a "configuration" section inside the helper that allows you to do some modifications and just focuse on the memo.

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In the images you can see the configuration section for both 3x3 and 4x4. Since the 3x3 have centers, you can easily select the orientation by the colors of the centers. A different approach was taken for cubes with even dimensions. In that case you can select a setup move to correct the orientation as a starting point for the memo. Also as a feedback from Gabriel Orosco (the guy of the method) I corrected the names of 5x5 pieces, as they have already a well stablished name (wings, midges, x Centers and + Centers).

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Hope you can enjoy the app.
 
And now you can select not only the buffer, but the helper (Orosco method) and the choosen configuration is saved into a file (for the desktop app) or the browser (for the web app).
 
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