Message #1705

From: schuma <mananself@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: yet more new puzzles and a prize
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 01:57:46 -0000

Hi Roice,

I have some difficulty running the program. When I tried to run it without installing .net framework 4, an error message popped out. After I installed .net framework 4 and run magictile again, nothing happens. In Task Manager I can see a process called magictile, but there is no window or anything. I uninstall and reinstall .net framework 4, and I restart the computer several times but no good news. Any clue?

Nan

— In 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com, Roice Nelson <roice3@…> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> MagicTile v2 has been coming along well lately, so I wanted to share a
> preview (not that we need any more puzzles at the moment!). It is a big
> user experience improvement over v1, mostly due to my favorite new
> capability - *smooth hyperbolic panning*! Click and drag to your heart’s
> content.
>
> Not a huge number of puzzles in the menus yet, only the ones I’ve been
> distracted towards or used in development, but they are unique. Also, they
> are configured in xml and easy to set up, so if anyone would like to see
> something in particular, just let me know. I’m finding the most difficult
> (but perhaps most interesting) task is working out the coloring patterns -
> that is, how to identify cells with each other. So if you request a puzzle,
> I may turn around and ask for help like I did for the {8,3} tiling.
>
> Here’s what is available so far:
>
> - {3,7} face/edge/vertex turning
> - {8,3} 24 Color, 10 Color and alternate 12 Color (The last two surprised
> me and the 10 Color is especially pretty.)
> - {4,6} and {6,4} "Petals"
> - {5,5} - These are seriously strange… non-orientable, 6-colors.
> Should be awesome, so check them out!
> - {4,4} Variants
> - Klein Bottles - There’s a Nan/Brandon/Andrey difficulty-level
> puzzle that is both face+edge turning :)
> - {6,3} - A 7-color and a vertex turning 16-color.
> - Also nice is that you can no longer pan to the edge of the euclidean
> tilings - they will just go on forever.
>
>
> I like that Melinda gave out a prize in the speed cubing competition, so I’d
> like to offer to send a MC4D crystal
> cube<https://picasaweb.google.com/112844794913554774416/MC4DCrystalCube#5348453195820638338>to
> *the first person to solve all three of the {3,7} puzzles*. I know there
> are 115 stickers that move through a twist in the face turning puzzle, some
> of them tiny. I know there are a ton of colors. I know there are no macros
> or piece finding yet. I only offered the prize, and didn’t say it would be
> easy! I hope the challenge will hold the group at bay for a while, maybe
> until new features are implemented, maybe forever. Yeah right! :D
>
> Here are the files (I haven’t made an installer). It requires the .NET
> Framework 4<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9cfb2d51-5ff4-4491-b0e5-b386f32c0992>,
> but I’d only worry about that if it doesn’t work after simply unzipping and
> attempting the run the exe.
>
> www.gravitation3d.com/magictile/downloads/MagicTile_v2_5-14-11.zip
>
> Cheers,
> Roice
>