A RubiksCube Experiment by SHA2048
This is a personal project to explore an idea I had about affects of different algorithms on a Rubik's Cube. If you repeat the same algorithm enough times on a rubik's cube it will return to it's original position. The number of times you need to repeat the algorithm until the cube returns to it's original position is dependant on the algorithm, and that is what I want to explore in this project.
To install simply clone the repository and run pip install -r requirements.txt To install all the dependencies of the project.
You will also need pygifsicle for gif optimizations, that can be installed using apt-get install gifsicle on linux or from
https://eternallybored.org/misc/gifsicle/ for windows. Add the installation folder to the path if you're on windows.
To start calculate the number of cycles needed to repeat the position, you should run run.py
Inside run.py there are some visualization functions such as makeGifFromString that are used to visualize an algorithm.
An Instruction string is a string of letters that represent movements of the cube. A lower case letter means clockwise and an uppercase letter means counter-clockwise. The different letters represent different sides: R - Right L - Left U - Up D - Down F - Face B - Back So 'Rbr' would mean moving the right side counter-clockwise, backside clockwise, and the right side clockwise.