Four-Dimensional Rubik's Cube Craziness

Posted by simoniker on Sunday June 8, 2003 @05:01PM from the my-mind-hurt-enough-solving-the-original dept.

roice writes "Rubik's junkies and puzzlers will be interested in this software rendered four-dimensional analog of Rubik's Cube. With over 1.75E120 possible combinations, it's a mind bender. Free versions are available for both Windows and Linux, and they even publish their source code for download. Solving it will get your name listed in their Hall Of Fame, and there is also a running competition for the most efficient solution. To help get you started, you can check out a solution algorithm based on techniques used to solve the popular three-dimensional version."

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Rotates too fast by rollingcalf · 2003-06-08 19:30 · Score: 2, Insightful

My problem with this is that it rotates so fast, that I can't figure out what the effect of a rotation is supposed to be. The speed also makes learning by observing it solving itself useless ... just some flashes and 0.25 seconds later it's done. Any way to slow it down?

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