Read this document to understand the project layout.
Author: Alexander Li - akli2@illinois.edu
- The user will be able to time their solve.
- There will be graphs to plot the user's data for analysis.
- Uses a Python 2.7 wrapper to plot graphs via matplotlib.
- Exports a .png of the graph to /assets
- The program will provide scrambles for a 3x3 Rubik's cube.
- The program will also provide a solution to the scramble of the rubik's cube (via Kociemba).
- Provides a visualization of what the cube should look like based on the scramble.
This program will require Python 2.7 and matplotlib installed. You must also have Visual Studio 2015 on Microsoft Windows to build this project.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
g |
View and export the graph |
t |
Provide a new scramble |
SPACE |
Start / Stop the timer |
v |
View the solution |
The names of the facelet positions of the cube (letters stand for Up, Left, Front, Right, Back, and Down):
|************|
|*U1**U2**U3*|
|************|
|*U4**U5**U6*|
|************|
|*U7**U8**U9*|
|************|
************|************|************|************
*L1**L2**L3*|*F1**F2**F3*|*R1**R2**R3*|*B1**B2**B3*
************|************|************|************
*L4**L5**L6*|*F4**F5**F6*|*R4**R5**R6*|*B4**B5**B6*
************|************|************|************
*L7**L8**L9*|*F7**F8**F9*|*R7**R8**R9*|*B7**B8**B9*
************|************|************|************
|************|
|*D1**D2**D3*|
|************|
|*D4**D5**D6*|
|************|
|*D7**D8**D9*|
|************|
A cube definition string "UBL..." means that in position U1 we have the U-color, in position U2 we have the
B-color, in position U3 we have the L color etc. according to the order U1, U2, U3, U4, U5, U6, U7, U8, U9, R1, R2,
R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, D8, D9, L1, L2, L3, L4,
L5, L6, L7, L8, L9, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8, B9.
Solution string consists of space-separated parts, each of them represents a single move:
- A single letter by itself means to turn that face clockwise 90 degrees.
- A letter followed by an apostrophe means to turn that face counterclockwise 90 degrees.
- A letter with the number 2 after it means to turn that face 180 degrees.
e.g. R U R’ U R U2 R’ U
- The program assumes that you will scramble the cube with green on the front and white on the top
- For the visualization of the cube after a scramble, the capital letters represent the layer of the cube and the color of the letter corresponds to the color of that piece