Message #507

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Re: Magic120Cell Realized
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 09:44:09 -0500

Hi,

Thank you, I am glad you are liking it. Melinda had suggested doing a piece
finder where clicking on a sticker makes the program find and highlight
which sticker should ultimately go there (this would be an inverse function
to the current ctrl+shift+click capability that highlights where a clicked
sticker should go). This will be easy and I plan to do it (I’ll probably
get another version out in the next week or two with that and some other
nice suggestions Melinda made). The new piece finder could highlight single
stickers or all the stickers of a piece, and I’m leaning towards the second
possibility. I think Melinda’s suggestion will be a better functionality
for this puzzle than doing an MC5D-like piece finder because the latter
requires the user deal with all the face colors.

Thanks for the suggestion of numbering/patterns on stickers. I agree that
would be nice, but it will be more involved to program. So even though I
would like this too, I’m going to have to add it to the long term wish list
for now (it’s going to take some investigation on my part to figure out a
good way to do it - I think the solution may likely involve texture
mapping). Hopefully the extended piece finding will be enough for the short
term. Thanks again for the feedback!

Roice

P.S. There were some ugly rendering issues I noticed since the first upload,
which are fixed. If any of you are playing with this and seeing them, you
might want to grab the latest.

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:19 PM, corkle0 <corkle0@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello Roice,
>
> I really think this is an amazing program and I will definitely
> attempt to solve it, but for me, looking at 120 different colors is
> just too confusing, so I thought it might be easier if each color had
> a number or some type of distinguishing pattern it so there wouldn’t
> be so much confusion between the colors. Also, on the MagicCube5D, I
> really liked the piece finder, and I think it would make the 120 Cell
> much easier if there were a piece finder in it. Just a couple
> suggestions, but great job creating such an awesome puzzle!
>
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