Message #2796

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] RE: MagicTile {∞,3} solutions
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 22:57:25 -0500

Hi Andrey,

Sorry for the delay. I was camping this weekend and disconnected from the
interwebs.

To find working values, I looked at your file and compared your coloring
configuration to the one for the hemidodecahedron. Two tags needed to be
changed:

Here is a working file, which only differs from your file by those two tags:

http://www.gravitation3d.com/magictile/4d_cubing/%7B10,3%7D%206C%20edited.xml

I wanted to note that there was one required alteration to the
hemidodecahedron coloring config. The elliptic puzzle had "InitialEdgeSet"
= 1, but for the hyperbolic puzzle, this needed be left as the default
(initial reflections across all edges) so it could fill out the whole
plane. It is so interesting how the spherical puzzles can be expanded to
hyperbolic tilings.

Hope this helps!

Roice


On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:41 PM, <andreyastrelin@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> Roice,
>
> can you help me with this example:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/bkb1runsvpyzooh/%7B10%2C3%7D%206C.xml ?
>
> It gives correct pattern of white faces, but keeps saying that all other
> tiles have the same color. But there should be 6 different colors (it’s
> hemidodecahedron expanded to {10,3}). I tried different values of
> EndRotation, but they don’t help. What do I do wrong?
>
> Andrey
>
>
> —In 4d_cubing@yahoogroups.com, <roice3@…> wrote:
>
> Here is the documentation page for configuring colorings (made for Eduard
> a while back):
>
> http://www.gravitation3d.com/magictile/info/identifications.html
>
> I’ll be the first to admit that creating new colorings is not the easiest
> thing. I’m happy to answer questions though, or to discuss how it might be
> improved.
>
> Cheers,
> Roice
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Melinda Green <melinda@…> wrote:
>
>
>
> OK, good to know, thanks Andrey. It surprises me a bit that puzzles with
> more colors are harder. That seems counter to the pattern where for
> example, the Rubik’s cube with 6 colors seems harder than the Megaminx with
> 12. Hopefully Roice will jump in with additional documentation on his
> puzzle file format. I would like to see what sort of fascinating new
> puzzles you come up with.
>
> -Melinda
>
> On 10/24/2013 4:46 PM, andreyastrelin@… wrote:
>
> Melinda,
>
> I’ve solved some of puzzles a couple of months ago, but there was
> nothing new for me - just versions of tetrahedron and cube. For something
> new we should try new coloring (with 12,24,36 colors etc.). Unfortunately I
> don’t understand Roice’s notation of puzzle definition, and can’t add good
> puzzles to MT.
>
> Andrey
>
>
> —In 4d_cubing@yahoogroups.com, <melinda@…> <melinda@…> wrote:
>
> Dear Cubists,
>
> It’s been a while now since Roice added several (approximately) infinite
> polygons to Magic Tile under "Hyperbolic > Large Polygons", and I’ve not
> seen or heard of any solutions to the ones with more than three colors.
> Has anyone done that? Even with 5 random twists I find myself hopelessly
> lost, but then I’m not a strong solver. These new puzzles sure look
> fabulous. How do they compare to the rest?
>
> -Melinda
>
>


On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:41 PM, <andreyastrelin@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> Roice,
>
> can you help me with this example:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/bkb1runsvpyzooh/%7B10%2C3%7D%206C.xml ?
>
> It gives correct pattern of white faces, but keeps saying that all other
> tiles have the same color. But there should be 6 different colors (it’s
> hemidodecahedron expanded to {10,3}). I tried different values of
> EndRotation, but they don’t help. What do I do wrong?
>
> Andrey
>
>
> —In 4d_cubing@yahoogroups.com, <roice3@…> wrote:
>
> Here is the documentation page for configuring colorings (made for Eduard
> a while back):
>
> http://www.gravitation3d.com/magictile/info/identifications.html
>
> I’ll be the first to admit that creating new colorings is not the easiest
> thing. I’m happy to answer questions though, or to discuss how it might be
> improved.
>
> Cheers,
> Roice
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Melinda Green <melinda@…> wrote:
>
>
>
> OK, good to know, thanks Andrey. It surprises me a bit that puzzles with
> more colors are harder. That seems counter to the pattern where for
> example, the Rubik’s cube with 6 colors seems harder than the Megaminx with
> 12. Hopefully Roice will jump in with additional documentation on his
> puzzle file format. I would like to see what sort of fascinating new
> puzzles you come up with.
>
> -Melinda
>
> On 10/24/2013 4:46 PM, andreyastrelin@… wrote:
>
> Melinda,
>
> I’ve solved some of puzzles a couple of months ago, but there was
> nothing new for me - just versions of tetrahedron and cube. For something
> new we should try new coloring (with 12,24,36 colors etc.). Unfortunately I
> don’t understand Roice’s notation of puzzle definition, and can’t add good
> puzzles to MT.
>
> Andrey
>
>
> —In 4d_cubing@yahoogroups.com, <melinda@…> <melinda@…> wrote:
>
> Dear Cubists,
>
> It’s been a while now since Roice added several (approximately) infinite
> polygons to Magic Tile under "Hyperbolic > Large Polygons", and I’ve not
> seen or heard of any solutions to the ones with more than three colors.
> Has anyone done that? Even with 5 random twists I find myself hopelessly
> lost, but then I’m not a strong solver. These new puzzles sure look
> fabulous. How do they compare to the rest?
>
> -Melinda
>
>
>
>
>
>
>