Message #718

From: Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Re: 3^4 parity problems
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:06:57 -0700

Klaus wrote:
> […]
>> I’m going to pre-announce now our intent to make the beta version
>> available in the late afternoon this Friday. We anticipate that this may
>> set off a mini gold rush of attempt to claim "firsts" records, so this
>> timing will hopefully give the most people the chance to plan to spend
>> some serious time with it this weekend.
>>
>
> I’m afraid I have a physics exam on tuesday and so I will spend most of my weekend with learning. But perhaps I’ll try to get the 2^4 solved first, because this should not afford too much time.
>
> btw: Do you release it on the old website and where are we supposed to send our log-files to? Does the address remain unchanged?
>

The locations for the download, solution wiki, and issue tracking will
be given in tomorrow’s announcement. Once the worst bugs are squished
and we have a version that seems solid enough for everyone, we will
create the official 4.0 release and I will add those links to the main
MC4D page. Until then, you will be the only people who are being told
about it.

Good luck with your 2^4 solution!

>> I like that idea, Klaus! Or at least the gesture that I imagine wouldn’t
>> require clicking on any particular cubie but rather would let you
>> continuously drag a whole face around and have it snap into the closest
>> orientation when you release the mouse. Ideally you’d be able to do this
>> several times in a row to the same face and have it count as a single
>> twist so long as the same slicemask is used each time.
>>
>
> You would not even need to do this several times in a row because with drag and drop you can reach every position (of one face) in one move.
>

You might realize after dropping it that it’s not in the right
orientation, so I wouldn’t want to make you have to undo it and then try
to get it right in a single twist. The program should concatenate any
compatible consecutive twists into a single one for you.

23 hours and counting!!
-Melinda