Message #2237
From: Eduard Baumann <baumann@mcnet.ch>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Re: color graphs of MagicTiles
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:37:20 +0200
Melinda: I tried one {8,4} and saw the difficulties. I have not yet continued my effort.
Roice: photos folder okay.
—– Original Message —–
From: Melinda Green
To: 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Re: color graphs of MagicTiles
These work. I guess we just need to remember to use the photos folder.
Looking at the graphs the 9-color only looks slightly more complicated than its sister’s. Is the difference really a proxy for difficulty? If so, the spherical 8-color FE graph looks complex though Nan solved it in just 59 twists. Of course we shouldn’t be misled by the shortness of his solutions, but it suggests that an edge-only version can’t be very hard. I’m also just comparing against my experience with the {8,4}s and that is not much of a guide either but for the opposite reason that I’m a beginner with these puzzles.
Nan & Ed, can we get your opinions on the {8,4}s?
And Roice, how about a pure edge-turning 8-color {3,5} so that I can compare against the similar {8,4}s?
Oh, and everyone be sure to notice Roice’s new "gliding" setting. It allows you to "fling" the left-drag rotations of all puzzles. A value of 0 gives the previous behavior in case you don’t like it. A value of 1 rotates forever, and values between the two control the damping speed which controls how quickly to slow the rotation to zero. Thanks, Roice!
-Melinda
On 6/2/2012 2:48 PM, Roice Nelson wrote:
Bummer, Yahoo doesn't make this easy. When you click on items in the 'Files' section, it seems to produce links that are only valid for the current logged in session. Links to items in the 'Photos' section seem to work. How about the following? <br>
a.. color graph ell sph 3,5 8.PNG <br>
b.. color graph hyp 10,4 6 no.PNG <br>
c.. color graph hyp 8,4 5.PNG <br>
d.. color graph hyp 8,4 9.PNG <br>
e.. color graph hyp 8,4 10.PNG <br>
Roice
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Eduard Baumann <baumann@mcnet.ch> wrote:
Sadly the links in your e-mail don’t work too.
----- Original Message ----- <br>
From: Roice Nelson <br>
To: 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com <br>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 7:23 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Re: color graphs of MagicTiles
Cool, thanks Ed.
People have had trouble with the file links before. I'm not sure why, but there must be some common path that results in broken links. Hopefully the following links to your graphs will work.<br>
a.. color graph ell sph 3,5 8.PNG <br>
b.. color graph hyp 10,4 6 no.PNG <br>
c.. color graph hyp 8,4 5.PNG <br>
d.. color graph hyp 8,4 9.PNG <br>
e.. color graph hyp 8,4 10.PNG <br>
It looks like you are working on dual graphs. By that I mean you made the faces on the puzzles vertices in the graphs. The {8,4} graphs all makes sense to me from that perspective, and they definitely help in studying the structure. Here's something interesting: turn the 5C graph on its side, and check out how it relates to the 10C graph. The {10,4} graph is intriguing too.
Looking at the {3,5} 8C graph, and comparing it to the one I made, I think I’m following your graph, but did you make this one when looking at the puzzle with the default colors? What does n stand for?
Roice
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Eduard Baumann <baumann@mcnet.ch> wrote:
The links are not working in e-mail (why?).
Goto to the group to be able to see the links.
Ed