Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 19 Apr 1994.
RUBIC thing movie
alt.ascii-art
· 4 messages · 19 Apr 1994 - 22 Apr 1994
this is old... but perhaps some people might enjoy it.
IDEA:
This puzzle has two sides:
a) and b)
+-+-+ +-+-+
|[|]| | | |
+-+-+ +-+-+-+
|[|]| | | | |
+-+-+ +-+-+-+ <--Solved.
|[|]| | | | |
+-+-+ +-+-+-+
|[|]|
+-+-+ <-- Original State.
The "a" state above represents the virgin, or the same state that the
puzzle was when it was in the packaging box. The "b" state above
represents that completely solved puzzle state.
The pieces will never "trade" or "switch" sides. You can look at
the puzzle as see this quite clearly as some of the squares have links
which inter-connect and other squares have links which don't connect.
With the puzzle in the "a" state, the links do no inter-connect. With
the puzzle in the "b" state, the links appear to be inter-conntected,
but actually, this is the other side of the pizzle. If the puzzle is
in the "a" state, look at the other side-- it will be a mess and it
will have images of inter-connecting links. If the puzzle is in the
"b" state, the links will be inter-connecting, but on the other side,
the links should never touch! With this in mind.....
Basically, once you can get the images on the ONE (the only possible)
side of the puzzle in any form similar to:
O
OO
Where the colored rings are inter-connecting and the colors match.
From this position, you can have various shapes, some of which
could be:
XX XX OX
XX OX OO XX XX
OX OO XX OXX XOX
OO XX XX OOX XOO Etc....
It will be possible to directly solve the puzzle.
This idea may be extended to the 12 piece puzzle.
IMHO, It's actually easier to go from the "solved" state to the
beginning state, I think you can probably perform all the moves that I
will describe in about five seconds or less-- I think it's about
twelve moves. However, I will start from the beginning state as it is
not too difficult to get the pizzle to this position.
Lets solve this thing!
Get the puzzle to state "a".....
(Please bear with my simplified ASCII representations.....)
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/D/ / /B/
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/D/ / /B/
+-+-+-+2+
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\ \C\ \A\
+-+-+-+-+
/D/ / /B/
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/D/ / /B/
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|/D/ /2/
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/c/ /a/ \
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\ /D/ 2 /
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In article <SCO...@coronado.santafe.edu>
sco...@santafe.edu (Scott D. Yelich) writes:
>(Please bear with my simplified ASCII representations.....)
This is a neat bit of animation. The bit I particularly liked was that it
ran on my newsreader and I could control the rate the pages 'flicked' at.
This is a lot easier then the animations you have to unpack, and which have to
repeat patterns hundreds of times to hold something on the terminal. Simple
and easy to use. This has a lot of possibilities. Nice one, Scott!
However maybe this didn't happen on all newsreaders. Did anyone have trouble
getting this to work on their newsreader? Do we know what non-printing
characters work for everyone?
--
Richard Kirk Image Processing Group Crosfield Electronics Ltd. U.K.
ra...@crosfield.co.uk 0442-230000 x3361/3591 Hemel Hempstead, Herts, HP2 7RH
>From: ra...@crosfield.co.uk (Richard Kirk) > >This is a neat bit of animation. The bit I particularly liked was that it >ran on my newsreader and I could control the rate the pages 'flicked' at. >This is a lot easier then the animations you have to unpack, and which have to >repeat patterns hundreds of times to hold something on the terminal. Simple >and easy to use. This has a lot of possibilities. Nice one, Scott! > >However maybe this didn't happen on all newsreaders. Did anyone have trouble >getting this to work on their newsreader? Do we know what non-printing >characters work for everyone? > Well, it did not work on mine. I access the news via Windows on a PC. The form feeds were displayed as a graphical symbol instead of being interpreted. So, I could scroll up and down as thought it was all one continuous message. Hence, this was not, I repeat, NOT an animation. Sorry to spoil your fun; I would have liked to see it too. -- Normand Veilleux nve...@emr1.emr.ca ----------------------------
>>>>> "Normand" == Normand Veilleux <Nve...@emr1.emr.ca> writes:
Normand> Well, it did not work on mine. I access the news via Windows
Normand> on a PC. The form feeds were displayed as a graphical symbol
Normand> instead of being interpreted. So, I could scroll up and down
Normand> as thought it was all one continuous message. Hence, this
Normand> was not, I repeat, NOT an animation. Sorry to spoil your
Normand> fun; I would have liked to see it too.
Did I say it was an amimation? no. I did not. If I did, then, well,
I'm losing it %->
^L control L .... that clears the screen for some things. Then, I
also hard coded in some VT escape codes to clear the screen.... either
way, if your term was a VT class or ^L (rn, etc) cleared the page...
then you could sorta enjoy the "movie" or if not, I'm sorry-- I'm not
selling a product. I just happened to have made that file one day
when I was bored and I thought I'd share it since I was passing trough
this group.
Scott
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