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aaronryank / Cubically

An esoteric programming language based on Rubik's Cubes
https://github.com/Cubically
GNU General Public License v3.0
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What will turn commands look like for 4+ size cubes? #13

Closed rexroni closed 6 years ago

rexroni commented 6 years ago

I noticed while playing with a 4-size cube that the inner four cubelets never change, because the RUFetc instructions aren't really scalable outside of a 3x3x3 cube.

I don't think it is a critical issue right now, but I was curious if you had a plan for how to deal with that in the future?

aaronryank commented 6 years ago

Yes, we've been discussing this in the Cubically chat room for some time. If you check out Cubically's code page you'll notice that the first 9 characters are Unicode superscript numbers. I plan on using these to turn inner layers of the cube.

For example, R⁰2 will behave like R2. R¹2 will turn the middle on a 3x3x3, and R²2 will turn the middle on a 5x5x5 and the left face counterclockwise on a 3x3x3. Basically, a superscript character x after a turn command y will mean "Turn the xth layer inward from the yth face".

I had this all implemented up until a couple hours ago, when my system crashed. Now I'm dealing with a bunch of little bugs based on the state of the repo halfway through development. Fun stuff.

Should be implemented by next week.

aaronryank commented 6 years ago

These have been implemented.