Rusty Puzzle Cube

An experimental implementation of simple puzzle cubes in Rust

Puzzle Cube GUI Crate

Experimental, still a work in progress, etc.

Cube in Cube in Cube (3x3x3 algo only on multiple cube sizes)

Controls

Click and drag along the edge of a face to perform a rotation

Unreasonable mode simply changes the maximum cube size from 100 to 2000

Shuffle will make 10n moves on an n x n x n cube

Some controls are removed on the WASM target

Building Puzzle Cube GUI Crate for web

Build command written from inside the web dir

npx wasm-pack build "../puzzle-cube-ui" --target web --out-name web --out-dir ../web/pkg

Files built into web/pkg/, which can be hosted by

npm run serve

Then visit http://localhost:8080

Puzzle Cube Lib Crate Demo

Demos of basic 3x3x3 notation being parsed and applied to a newly created cube

Cube in Cube in Cube

let mut cube = Cube::create(3);
let sequence = "F R' U' F' U L' B U' B2 U' F' R' B R2 F U L U";
perform_3x3_sequence(sequence, &mut cube).unwrap();
print!("{cube}");

Checkerboard Corners

let mut cube = Cube::create(3);
let sequence = "R2 L2 F2 B2 U2 D2";
perform_3x3_sequence(sequence, &mut cube).unwrap();
print!("{cube}");

Unique Cubies and Large Cubes

Large cubes can be created by providing a larger side length, and cubies can each be given a unique character to keep track of exactly where they move as moves are applied

Note that side length is limited to a maximum of 8 when using unique characters to avoid leaving the basic ASCII range (and trying to use the DEL control code in a cubie)

let mut cube = Cube::create_with_unique_characters(8.try_into()?);
print!("{cube}");

Note that notation currently only supports 3x3x3-applicable moves. For example, rotating only the center column of a 5x5x5, or the 2nd column of a 4x4x4 is currently impossible with notation.