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Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

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  • I wrote a 3d rubiks cube slot machine for my old online casino. It scrambled the cube randomly 4 times and gave the player 60 seconds to solve it by twisting up to 3 times. Lots of weird quaternion math to handle the spinning and shift key twisting at the same time. All with simple geometry in Away3D / AS3.The real hard part of designing that game…

    noduermeHacker News20h agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • This is a nice visualization. Are there any keyboard keys to just advance one position along the line? I tried the arrow keys but they jumped quite far.I don't know how this was generated (BFS and flattening?) it seems adjacent indices aren't just one move apart ... but they could be!There is a Hamiltonian circuit for Rubik's cube…

    dcanelhasHacker News15h agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Reminds me of that time when, as an undergraduate, my "team" entered a Problem Solving Competition and couldn't choose one of the two problems so we did both in parallel.One of us wrote a program in BASIC on a Tandy 1000 that the rest of us estimated would take more than a google years to finish, but he wasn't be dissuaded and let it run the whole…

    PaulHouleHacker News1d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • The color interpolation in 2D mode is bad. Instead of interpolating through RGB, you should use OKLCHDemo: https://jsfiddle.net/t80eLfc2/2/Interpolating in RGB just uses linear interpolation on each channel, so it ends up passing through grey in a lot of cases, and the colors look very desatured.Interpolating in OKLCH preserves chroma and instead…

    tantalorHacker News11h agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Reminds me of a book I recently read:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Stay_in_HellThe numbers produced by permutations are astounding! Especially compared to the (much smaller) numbers in our actual physical universe.

    snowwrestlerHacker News23h agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • My scroll wheel covers about 12 states per inch of travel. Did the stubby pencil work and it would take about 9.5 years to scroll through them all if the wheel surface was moving at the speed of light.

    jcimsHacker News1d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Sweet, can I mint these as NFTs? I don't know how to multiply 43252003274489856000 by 50 USD but I think it could make me a lot of money, and I like money.

    zetanorHacker News23h agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Casino games are rarely zero house edge. Is there a way you signaled this feature to problem solvers? Did the game prove to be successful?

    divbzeroHacker News20h agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • any time there is skill in an online casino game where money is involved, there is cheating too

    crucioHacker News16h agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Exponential growth is always mind boggling! Crazy to think there are that many states.

    michaelfallonHacker News4h agoview on Hacker News ↗