Rubik's cube emulator.
 xrubik-1.0.1.tar.gz |
11 May 2004 | 12.2k |
The Rubik's cube is coming back into fashion! Honest! No, really, I'm serious. I was in a $5 book shop and they had a whole crate of brand new Rubik's Cubes ready for the Christmas sales. So it must be so.
This is a small X11 app that lets you play with a simulated Rubik's cube. You can turn the cube, and rotate faces with either keystrokes, or by clicking buttons. It scales. It doesn't auto-solve. And, unless you hack the source, you can't start it in a particular state. However, using X translations, you can bind frequently-used sequences of moves to a single key. Keys 1 through 5 are predefined in the resource file with some standard short cut moves that let you flip cubes.
See also the official Rubik's Cube simulator, with 3D shading and auto-solving, which is way cool. However, it's in Java, while this program is just Athena X11.
The subversion repository for this software can be accessed through http://svn.adaptive-enterprises.com/misc/xrubik or browsed with ViewVC.
This software has been placed in the public domain.