The Cube...with Legos...and a camera?

August 17, 2005 10:26 by author

After reading scalpers Sub-2 post I remembered a really cool site I had looked at a few months back. Oooo!!! Legos, Rubik's cube and image processing!!! Man if this was written in C# and had a managed DirectX interface we'd never need to leave home!! ;) So as you can see OS, you need to use plastic knives and silicone spray.

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August 16. 2005 20:11

Chad,

Cameras, check. (www.jjbresearch.org/.../Clutter.aspx" rel="nofollow">www.jjbresearch.org/.../Clutter.aspx">www.jjbresearch.org/.../Clutter.aspx" rel="nofollow">www.jjbresearch.org/.../Clutter.aspx)

Plastic knives, check.

Silicone spray?  There are better uses for silicone (I forgive you for forgetting the important use of silicone (in 400cc allotments) considering I was unavailable for the last INETA-meeting-after-party).

I've seen a few really cool solvers including the one you mention here.  Fun, fun, fun.  Here's a Rubik's Robot that solves a cube in the physical world in 15 seconds.

http://www.henage.net/dan/cube/caltechspring.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.henage.net/dan/cube/caltechspring.htm">http://www.henage.net/dan/cube/caltechspring.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.henage.net/dan/cube/caltechspring.htm

The world record holder also has two videos on that page of cool solves, one in 12.11 seconds, and one with a corner "pop" in 19.83.  Amazing.  The guy's cube loses a corner, he puts it back in (in the correct orientation) and continues to solve the cube in one sixth of my best time.

Also, "scalpers"?  You are the first to shorten my name in public (without using O or OS).  I've been waiting for someone to do this.  Some other JJBR'ers did it, but they are now lame, dorky, good-for-nothing termites who can't/don't refute anything I say in public and only call me "shortened" names in private.  Just don't turn out like they did, all stupid (SLAM) and quiet (SLAM) and mathematically incompetent (SLAM).  Dang termites.

---O

optionsScalper

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