Message #934

From: Anthony Deschamps <anthony.j.deschamps@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] MC7D v0.11
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:36:57 -0400

Thanks! That effectively does what I want it to. I suppose that will count
as a twist, but I’m not shooting for a short solution here. Just solving it
will be enough of an achievement.

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Chris Locke <project.eutopia@gmail.com>wrote:

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> You can still twist like that if you hold down 1, 2, and 3 for your first
> click. The functionality to twist only a given layer is already built it to
> make solving 4 and 5 length cubes possible, so if you hold down 1 through 3
> for the 3^7 cube, it will instead of twisting rotate the whole thing.
>
> Chris
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> 2010/6/24 Anthony Deschamps <anthony.j.deschamps@gmail.com>
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>> Well, I’ve begun working on it, and so far the new features have been
>> handy. I have one more feature that would be nice. The MC5D program
>> offered some more advanced options when it came to rotating the entire
>> cube. Rather than just clicking on the face to move to the center, it
>> allowed the user to move any face into any position. While this was
>> accomplished with buttons in MC5D, I think a more elegant solution would be
>> to let the user rotate the cube in the same manner they turn sides, by
>> picking a face to pivot around as well as a "from" and "to" face.
>>
>> This would allow the user to keep the face they’re working on in the
>> center and more easily rotate the entire cube around it.
>>
>> I’m loving the new challenge!
>> Anthony
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>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Andrey <andreyastrelin@yahoo.com>wrote:
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>>> Sorry for frequent updates, but couple of bugs in v0.1 was very serious.
>>> So new version is in the same place:
>>> http://shade.msu.ru/~astr/MC7D/MC7D.zip<http://shade.msu.ru/%7Eastr/MC7D/MC7D.zip>.
>>> New feature: command "Recalculate" (in Edit menu). It performs all twists
>>> again, from the solved cube, without all Undo/Redo branches. I recommend to
>>> run it from time to time to be sure that your puzzle is in state consistent
>>> with the twist history (and that it’s solvable :) )
>>>
>>> Andrey
>>>
>>>
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