belford wrote:Unfortunately the number of rotational states of a cube -- even 2x2x2 -- is kind of enormous.
Ah yes, I suppose you are right. Oh well, my excuse is that I suck at math.
Grogyan wrote:I'm sorry I forgot about Jonae, but I mean't really, recently RtR has the puzzle on his shell.
Assuming using SDL variables for a 2 x 2 x2 cube, can't you use straight integer arrays?
Eg
n = numarray.array ([x, y, z, u, v, w,])
And with local variables for the switches
TopLeft, Top Right, BottomLeft, BottomRight, LeftTopUp, RightTopUp, LeftBottomDown, RightBottomDown?
You could store the array into a STRING32 SDL variable. And when reading the SDL you restore the array by splitting the string at the commas.
That still leaves the visual aspects unsolved though. I think the word "Simple" should be scratched from the title. Not only does this puzzle have a huge amount of combinations but you want all of them to be visible as well!
Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think even Cyan has attempted something like that.