Random Cubing Discussion

[StachuK1992]

Heehee. More to come.

 

[waffle=ijm]

need moar stachu stop slacking D:<

 

[StachuK1992]

Heehee. More to come.

Now supports move restrictions in the form of "RUDF2."

 

[qqwref]

So what is this exactly - is it just going to be an ACube frontend, or are you going to incorporate something much more complex like an alg-quality heuristic?

Would you consider allowing pieces to be defined either in terms of stickers, or in terms of the pieces themselves? So for instance you could fill in a single red sticker somewhere, and then define another piece to be green-orange-yellow with the orientation unknown.

 

[fireshaper]

I think I just found the most awesome Stickers for Cubes:

http://thismobilelife.com/rubicraft/index.html

Thanks for the mention! I know that I named the stickers wrong and I am going to correct that. I was td about stickers from someone who used the word "tiles" so I presumed that was the correct word for the stickers on cubes. I do apologize if anyone was mislead by this misuse of terminology.

 

[DavidWoner]

And do you mean recognising EP? It's very easy.

Easy doesn't mean it doesn't suck. I think it requires looking around too much.

 

[Tim Major]

Easy doesn't mean it doesn't suck. I think it requires looking around too much.

It can be (I don't because I'm lazy) recognized with 2 faces, you just need to see 3 stickers, and know where the F2L edge is. FR FU RU.

 

[timeless]

anyone tried using decal stickers on their cubes?

 

[StachuK1992]

So what is this exactly - is it just going to be an ACube frontend, or are you going to incorporate something much more complex like an alg-quality heuristic?

Would you consider allowing pieces to be defined either in terms of stickers, or in terms of the pieces themselves? So for instance you could fill in a single red sticker somewhere, and then define another piece to be green-orange-yellow with the orientation unknown.

It's ACube (version 3...for now!) with a GUI frontend, also incorporating a Gripper function, ranking algs by time rather than movecount (when wanted).

I'm working with Jelinek for full support for ACube4, which will include a few new fun things.


This program will have essentially all of the features as ACube3, plus a few.

 

[Godmil]

It's ACube with a GUI frontend,

Thank you thank you thank you thank you!

 

[StachuK1992]

I guess it's out, so I'll just put updates for it here - does anyone mind?

It now supports:
-full cubes
-move restrictions (I only want RUD algs for something)
-sorting by metric (QTM, FTM, STM)
-GUI input
-"Show all" and "Show optimal" algs
-GUI output of algs
-neglectable first/last moves (equivalent to ~UD in aCube).

It still needs
-to have gripper function implemented
-to incomplete cubes

What else? I have a number of other suggestions, but I figure here would be the best place to ask for them. I'm working on this a decent amount, so in order to get my expected release date of Friday, I need as much pre-feedback as I can get.

I hope to get all of the above options done today.

statue

 

[irontwig]

I guess it's out, so I'll just put updates for it here - does anyone mind?

It now supports:
-full cubes
-move restrictions (I only want RUD algs for something)
-sorting by metric (QTM, FTM, STM)
-GUI input
-"Show all" and "Show optimal" algs

It still needs
-to have gripper function implemented
-to have a non-command output to work with the above
-to incomplete cubes
-to state neglectable first/last moves (equivalent to ~UD in aCube).

What else? I have a number of other suggestions, but I figure here would be the best place to ask for them. I'm working on this a decent amount, so in order to get my expected release date of Friday, I need as much pre-feedback as I can get.

I hope to get all of the above options done today.

statue

Cool beans, man.

 

[StachuK1992]

Now for better output, and gripper.

 

[AndreasFrom]

I hope you will excuse my curiosity; but what IDE is this?

 

[StachuK1992]

JCreator. It's not bloated, works on Windows (so I can code at work) and manages projects pretty well.

 

[AndreasFrom]

JCreator. It's not bloated, works on Windows (so I can code at work) and manages projects pretty well.

Okay, thank you. I recognized some Java code, but it was neither Eclipse nor Netbeans

 

[irontwig]

I guess it's out, so I'll just put updates for it here - does anyone mind?

It now supports:
-full cubes
-move restrictions (I only want RUD algs for something)
-sorting by metric (QTM, FTM, STM)
-GUI input
-"Show all" and "Show optimal" algs

It still needs
-to have gripper function implemented
-to have a non-command output to work with the above
-to incomplete cubes
-to state neglectable first/last moves (equivalent to ~UD in aCube).

What else? I have a number of other suggestions, but I figure here would be the best place to ask for them. I'm working on this a decent amount, so in order to get my expected release date of Friday, I need as much pre-feedback as I can get.

I hope to get all of the above options done today.

statue

How about being able to have double layer turns in the move restrictions e.g. <R,r,M,U> or <R,r,L,l,U>?

 

[StachuK1992]

How about being able to have double layer turns in the move restrictions e.g. <R,r,M,U> or <R,r,L,l,U>?

As of now, wide moves are not supported in aCube, therefore not supported in GripACube.

However, I will work on workarounds for this, eventually.

Note - sorted out my output! Gripping time!

 

[StachuK1992]

Thoughts on where to put output?
Most are saying to have a separate frame (window) open, like CubeExplorer. I do like keeping things on one window, though. We'll see.

 

[irontwig]

Looks good to me at least.