Message #1387

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Re: mc5d solved
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:05:05 -0600

Great job Andras! That is quite a dramatic improvement to the previous
shortest 3^5. It seems the gauntlet has been thrown down!

When Andrey achieved his short solution, I had meant to create a shortest
category, but dropped the ball on it (sorry Andrey!). But I’ve updated the
hall of insanity pages now to document Andras’ new achievement, and all the
other current MC5D shortests. I also went ahead and added Andrey’s MC5D
solve to the list, even though it was done with a different version of the
program. Not sure what is best there, but I hope that is ok.

Also, Andras, feel free to use any of that piano music on my old home
page if you decide it would be good for the video you’re working on.

All the best,
Roice

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>wrote:

>
>
> Hello Andras, and congratulations! Hey, I just realized that we don’t have
> hall-of-fame categories for anything over four dimensions. Remi? Roice?
> Hint, hint.
>
> I love it when solution methods get pushed near their limits, even though
> I’ve never mastered any of them. I also love your idea of creating a Youtube
> video. My guess is that layer-by-layer solutions make for more easily
> understood playbacks. 10 minutes sounds rather long though. I would suggest
> turning the twist speed *way* up in order to bring the time into the 3
> minute range even if that means little or no twist animation. Roice got
> Noel’s 120 Cell solution video<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4bkU3nC1Jw>down to 2 minutes by only showing one frame for every 10 twists, and it’s
> still impressive to watch. I encourage you to similarly have your puzzle
> slowly rotating as it runs through the solution. Maybe for this 5D solution
> it could slowly rotate involving more than pure 3D rotations? That seems
> like it would be fitting.
>
> I also love your idea of adding a suitable sound track. I have no idea what
> music would be best to use but a good choice will certainly add a lot to the
> effect. I’m very much looking forward to seeing your video!
>
> Great to hear from you again, Andras, and with such good news!
> Congratulations again,
> -Melinda
>
> On 2/5/2011 1:10 AM, Andras Ecseki wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> After I have read Melinda’s enthusiasm about Matt’s and Ethan’s recent
> achievement, I felt myself pushed to give another shot to the MC5D with the
> experience I gained when I solved it first time. I’ve had some new ideas to
> reduce the number of the required twists both on 1-2. and last layer (I’m
> still using layer by layer method), but I’ve been using basically my old
> macros.
> Well, the result talks for itself: 2262 twists (log file shows 2410,
> rotating moves and the 1st 100 twist subtracted).
> Although this is only my second solve, I think this is it, I couldn’t do
> significantly better with this method, and with this program (plenty of
> twists could be spared, if the special twists would be allowed, I’m still
> hoping that Roice will implement them one day;-).
>
> One more thing: I have a request for the group!
> I’m considering to upload my solve on youtube, but I can’t find the
> perfect music for it. I think the best would be some long song (like 10 min)
> without lyrics and a rythm similar to the speed of the twists running.
> I was thinking about stealing some soft piano music from Roice’s old blog
> too, but I don’t want a lawsuit for breaking copyrights:))
> I usually listen any kind of metal music, but I’m open minded for anything
> good.
>
> Thanks for reading me (and as always: sry for the bad english)
>
> Log file attached to this mail, if anyone wants to see it.
>
> András
>
> ——————————
> *From:* Andrey <andreyastrelin@yahoo.com> <andreyastrelin@yahoo.com>
> *To:* 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Thu, September 2, 2010 3:48:14 PM
>
> *Subject:* [MC4D] Re: mc5d solved
>
>
>
> Andras, congratulations!
>
> I’ve accepted the challenge. And my result is 3581 twists. I solved cube in
> MC7D, but it has the same twist definition as MC5D, so results are
> comparable.
> Log file is here:
>
> http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/4D_Cubing/files/MC7D/andrey_3d5_3581.log
> I’ve used solving "from inside" (2C,3C,4C,5C). Last 50 twists were to
> resolve
> one 3-loop on 5C (probability of this situation is 2/3). I think that with
> luck
> I can do 3500 by my method, but not much better.
> Twists for stages of my solve:
> 2C - 125
> 3C - 706
> 4C - 1472
> 5C - 1278
>
> Good luck!
> Andrey
>
>