Message #3541

From: Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Re: MagicTile Solving
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:19:43 -0700

I hadn’t considered simply avoiding the broken locations, thinking I was
going to need multiple versions for each rotation. Maybe I’ll see if I
can just use set-up moves to use the locations that do work.

On 10/25/2016 1:47 PM, ‘Eduard Baumann’ ed.baumann@bluewin.ch
[4D_Cubing] wrote:
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> Ah.
> I do it always with macros. Eventually they work not at every place.
> In this case you must use the perhaps 50% working places.
> Best regards
> Ed
>
> —– Original Message —–
> *From:* Melinda Green melinda@superliminal.com [4D_Cubing]
> <mailto:melinda@superliminal.com%20[4D_Cubing]>
> *To:* 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com <mailto:4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 25, 2016 10:32 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [MC4D] Re: MagicTile Solving
>
> Thanks for the encouragement, Ed. I started to do it but most of
> my macros didn’t work and I really don’t want to do it without
> them. Roice understands the issue involving non-orientable puzzles
> but the fixes (keeping track of orientation) appear more difficult
> than he’s ready to take on at the moment.
>
> Best,
> -Melinda
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> On 10/25/2016 7:46 AM, ‘Eduard Baumann’ ed.baumann@bluewin.ch
> [4D_Cubing] wrote:
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>> First 79 entries in the Mathologer MT Challenge Hall of Fame:
>> Only 2 women !? (Marie and Marie-Chantal)
>> Melinda please, change this weard statistics ;-)
>> [At least three M’s instead of two Marie’s]
>> Best regars
>> Ed
>>
>> —– Original Message —–
>> *From:* Melinda Green melinda@superliminal.com [4D_Cubing]
>> <mailto:melinda@superliminal.com%20[4D_Cubing]>
>> *To:* 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, October 23, 2016 2:34 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: [MC4D] Re: MagicTile Solving
>>
>> Thank you so much for breaking up the MT solutions wiki page!
>> It had gotten /way /out of control.
>>
>> I bet Ed’s 1M+ twist solution will strain a few things. It
>> will be a great test case. Good luck Ed!
>>
>> Finally, congratulations on 100k+ video views. That happened
>> pretty quickly. Maybe even faster than the 4D video.
>>
>> Great stuff everyone!
>> -Melinda
>>
>> On 10/22/2016 9:37 AM, Roice Nelson roice3@gmail.com
>> [4D_Cubing] wrote:
>>> Super cool, both of you! Ed, will this be the first solve
>>> you’ve done with >1M moves? I can’t recall if there have
>>> been others.
>>>
>>> An update on the Mathologer video and Klein bottle
>>> challenge… Last night, the video crossed 100,000 views,
>>> which is pretty cool. We have 25 slots left in the
>>> challenge at the moment, and solutions have slowed quite a
>>> bit. They are currently coming in about one a day, so I’m
>>> guessing there will be at least a few weeks (likely longer)
>>> before it is full. I took the challenge myself (solver #49)
>>> and it was great fun - more difficult than I anticipated,
>>> with some surprising configurations. If you haven’t tried
>>> it, try it. You’ll be glad you did!
>>>
>>> http://roice3.org/magictile/mathologer
>>>
>>> I’m doing some wiki updates right now. I’ve already split
>>> the solutions page into 3 separate pages, and am working on
>>> getting the puzzle list up to date with the current set of
>>> puzzles.
>>>
>>> http://wiki.superliminal.com/wiki/MagicTile_v2_Solutions
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Roice
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 4:02 AM, ‘Eduard Baumann’
>>> ed.baumann@bluewin.ch <mailto:ed.baumann@bluewin.ch>
>>> [4D_Cubing] <4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com
>>> <mailto:4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Michael,
>>> Wow!
>>> Congratulations.
>>> Do you think that Mathologer Challenge hall of
>>> fame reaches 100 items?
>>> You are very economic.
>>> I’m solving "_MT ell isoca fev111 (Big Chop)_" actually
>>> and I will reach about a million turns.
>>> Best regards
>>> Ed
>>>
>>> —– Original Message —–
>>> *From:* qqwref@yahoo.com [4D_Cubing]
>>> <mailto:qqwref@yahoo.com+[4D_Cubing]>
>>> *To:* 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com
>>> <mailto:4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com>
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, October 22, 2016 2:22 AM
>>> *Subject:* [MC4D] Re: MagicTile Solving
>>>
>>> Coming back with two huge but easy puzzles on {7,3},
>>> and cleaning up a lot of similar {4,4} puzzles
>>> (Torus/Klein/Skew).
>>>
>>>
>>> {4,4} Torus 8-color F0.33:0:1 - 364 turns
>>> {4,4} Torus 8-Color F0:2:0 - 388 turns
>>> {4,4} Torus 9-Color F0:2:0 - 260 turns
>>> {4,4} Torus 16-Color F0:2:0 - 446 turns
>>>
>>> {4,4} Klein 9-Color F0.33:0:1 - 312 turns
>>> {4,4} Klein 9-Color F0:2:0 - 286 turns
>>>
>>> {7,3} 24-Color F1.4:0:0 F1.6:0:0 V1.4:0:0 V1.6:0:0 -
>>> 9477 turns
>>> {7,3} 24-Color V1.3:0:0 V1.6:0:0 - 2110 turns
>>>
>>> {4,4|3} 9-Color F0:2:0 - 270 turns
>>> {4,4|4} 16-Color F0:2:0 - 468 turns
>>> {4,4|5} 25-Color F0:2:0 - 1178 turns
>>> {4,4|6} 36-Color F0:2:0 - 1402 turns
>>> {4,4|7} 49-Color F0:2:0 - 2946 turns
>>>
>>> – Michael Gottlieb
>>>
>>>
>>>
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