Message #1398

From: Mark Oram <markoram109@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Re: mc5d solved [1 Attachment]
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:47:27 +0000

Andras,
 
Many congratulations on your acheivement!
 
How about Ravel’s Bolero for your music suggestion? The full version is a bit long (15-17 min) so it might not fit into the YouTube 10 min window without a little editing, but everything else about it seems to fit your criteria.
 
It has a constant steady rhythm, no lyrics, and builds slowly but inexorably to a climax that you could obviously coordinate with completing the last turn to get the cube fully solved.
 
After that the piece has a few more bars of ’resolution’ melody that maybe could be overlayed with a few turns of the fully solved cube to verify you did indeed have all 10 hyperfaces in their pristine state.
 
Just a thought :)

— On Sat, 5/2/11, Andras Ecseki <andras_ecseki@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Andras Ecseki <andras_ecseki@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Re: mc5d solved [1 Attachment]
To: 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, 5 February, 2011, 9:10

[Attachment(s) from Andras Ecseki included below]

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>
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