Virtual Reality Magic Cube

Creative Inspire

Jan/1997

Creative Entertainment Choice Award

APR/1996
#B050402-5
JARS Top 1% Award

July/1998
Links2Go Key Resource Award

July/1998
Bonus.com Editor's Choice Award

Usage

Select Cube Rotate Mode by press 'Cube' Button. Use Mouse to rotate the cube.
Select Face Rotate Mode by press 'Face' Button. Use Mouse to rotate the faces.
Select 2x2x2 puzzle by Press '2' Button.
Select 3x3x3 puzzle by Press '3' Button.
Select 4x4x4 puzzle by Press '4' Button.
Select 5x5x5 puzzle by Press '5' Button.
Select 6x6x6 puzzle by Press '6' Button.
Press 'Original' Button to return the original viewport.
Press 'Arrange' Button to return the original cube arrangement.
Press 'Puzzle' Button to randomly rotate the cube and create a puzzle.
Press 'Solve' Button to solve the puzzle step by step.
Press '+' or '-' Button to increase/decrease the puzzle's level of difficulty.

The face rotated is selected by the particular spot and action chosen - give it a try!

Note: I have tested this applet on SGI/Irix, Sun, Mac, and Win95 platform. You may encounter some display disorder problems in Win95 or NT.

Program Structure:

 * Magic.java        -- the Main Applet
 * Viewport.java     -- the Viewport and Operation class
 * Cube.java         -- the Cube Object
 * Coordinate.java   -- Coordinate Transform class
 * Point2D.java      -- 2-dim Point class
 * Point3D.java      -- 3-dim Point class
 * Button3D.java     -- Motif Look 3D Button
 * Panel3D.java      -- Panel with 3D Outlook
 * Label3D.java      -- Label with 3D Outlook
 * Canvas3D.java     -- Canvas with 3D Outlook
 * Setting.java      -- Global Setting Interface
 * Exclusive.java    -- Mutual Exclusion Object
 * Delay.java        -- Delay Interrupt Object
 *
 * The Class Hierarchy:
 *
 * Object -+- Delay
 *         |
 *         +- Exclusive
 *         |
 *         +- Point2D
 *         |
 *         +- Point3D -+- Coordinate
 *                     |
 *                     +- Cube
 * Applet --- Magic
 * Panel  --- Panel3D
 * Canvas --- Canvas3D -+- Label3D --- Button3D
 *                      |
 *                      +- Viewport

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The Virtual Reality Magic Cube was developed by Yuh-Jye Chang.
Send comments, suggestions, questions and bug reports to yjchang@lucent.com.
Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies,
Communication Software Research Center.
Last updated 30 Dec 1999.