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Rubik's Cube Page
(Last Update 09:37 on Friday, 13 December 2002)
- Would you believe that a Microsoft product has a bug? If you do,
and you are having problems with my applet, try turning off IE's JIT
compiler, depending on your version of IE:
- Open Internet Properties, select the Advanced tab, and uncheck Enable Java JIT compiler.
- Open Internet Properties and select the Advanced tab.
Scroll down to Java VM and uncheck Java JIT compiler enabled.
- Open Internet Properties and select the Advanced tab.
Scroll down to Java VM and uncheck JIT compiler for virtual machine enabled.
- Useful links
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Click here to see the applet in its own frame.
Java 2 applet available using the
java plug-in
for Solaris or Windows 9x and NT4. Nearly complete! Please select your level of Java 2 support:
- Load the sizing grid and click on
the grid to choose the size of the cube. Or pick a predefined size:
- Small,
- Medium or
- Large.
-
Auto may work on your browser.
- To make a Rubik's Cuboid smaller, press Delete, End or - .
- To make a Rubik's Cuboid larger, press Insert, Home or + .
- To rotate a slice of the cube, click on a face and drag
it in the direction you want to twist. If you drag diagonally,
or click outside the cube, the whole cube will rotate.
- Press S to scramble the cube and C
to restore it (but not as neatly!)
- Reset has been
changed to Clear to allow for direction keys to rotate
planes of the cube: Front, Back, Left,
Right, Up and Down rotate the face
clockwise as seen from that direction.
Hold down shift to rotate anti-clockwise, and ctrl
to rotate the middle plane on 3×3×3 and 4×4×4 cubes.
Note that the centre slices of the 5×5×5 and larger cubes can
only be rotated with the mouse.
Really fixed the rotation of large cubes.
- Press a digit to change the number of planes of the cube
(this resets the cube).
You can change the planes of the cube up to 10×10×10 (use 0 for 10).
There is no limit on the number of sides if your graphics are up to it.
New features in this version:
- If your browser supports it, a two-way arrow will appear
showing the direction in which you can drag the slice.
- The slice will drop into place automatically, you can
turn this off by pressing ctrl+shift+S,
and on again by pressing ctrl+S.
- You can change the speed of background rotation by pressing
A for normal, ctrl+A for slow, shift+A
for fast and ctrl+shift+A for immediate.
- You can take back a move by clicking or pressing <
or undo all your moves by clicking « or pressing ,.
- The computer can solve the 2×2×2 cube; after shuffling it
press shift+S. (This is not the same as undo!
If you try it on a larger cube it just does the corners. Perhaps someone
knows how to generate a short solution of a 3×3×3 or 4×4×4 cube?)
- You can change the colours the cube uses - press ctrl+C to
select the colour to change and shift+C to change it.
- You can change the drag area by combining ctrl
or shift with the G key:
- None
80% of cube- Ctrl
100% of cube- Shift
96% of cube (areas overlap)- Both
100% of cube (areas overlap)
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Added the ability to rotate the very centre slice of the 5×5×5
cube with the mouse.
- Fixed a bug where rotating a middle slice from a different face
wouldn't undo the previous rotation.
I have only tested this applet with Netscape Navigator®
3 and 4, and briefly with Internet Explorer® 3.
If you have problems with the background on your browser, please
mail me a screen shot and
quote the browser's internal agent name CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html).
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