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I did a PF search to try to see if this was discussed before, and didn't find what I was wanting to ask about (I could have missed it).
I'm writing a Rubik's Cube game C/C# program for fun (starting with a console app and working up through various GUI options). I'd like to use a standard axis representation of the Rubik's cube if it exists already. If it doesn't exist already, I'll just define my own and proceed on.
Does anybody know of any existing standards? The two images below seem to be pretty common (and they look consistent to me). They would imply that I could define the starting x-y-z planes as G-R-Y, with the origin in the corner of the GRY sub-cube. does that seem like a standard starting origin?
Also, are all Rubik's Cubes manufactured with the same initial starting position, or can you buy different new Rubik's Cubes with the colors on different sides? No big deal for my programming exercise, but I'm just curious. Maybe there is a Rubik's Cube Standards Body that I don't know about yet.
Finally, can anybody recommend a good quality Rubik's cube for me to buy to play with along with my program? I've owned cheap plastic Rubik's Cubes in the past, and they were very frustrating to work with (very sticky and imprecise in their action). If there were a version with metal bearings, I'd be willing to pay for that (up to a point, of course). I think I've looked through the Amazon offerings in the past, and they all looked like cheap plastic versions.
Thanks!
EDIT -- Because of a strange forum glitch, there is another image attached at the bottom of my ost. The color oredr appears to be different in that image, but I'm not sure...https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...yuA_6UMtCcAKjGf7HimnxDa0bqkfJveY93ywMSdna8cPA
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Rubik%E2%80%99s_cube_colors.svg/220px-Rubik%E2%80%99s_cube_colors.svg.png
I'm writing a Rubik's Cube game C/C# program for fun (starting with a console app and working up through various GUI options). I'd like to use a standard axis representation of the Rubik's cube if it exists already. If it doesn't exist already, I'll just define my own and proceed on.
Does anybody know of any existing standards? The two images below seem to be pretty common (and they look consistent to me). They would imply that I could define the starting x-y-z planes as G-R-Y, with the origin in the corner of the GRY sub-cube. does that seem like a standard starting origin?
Also, are all Rubik's Cubes manufactured with the same initial starting position, or can you buy different new Rubik's Cubes with the colors on different sides? No big deal for my programming exercise, but I'm just curious. Maybe there is a Rubik's Cube Standards Body that I don't know about yet.
Finally, can anybody recommend a good quality Rubik's cube for me to buy to play with along with my program? I've owned cheap plastic Rubik's Cubes in the past, and they were very frustrating to work with (very sticky and imprecise in their action). If there were a version with metal bearings, I'd be willing to pay for that (up to a point, of course). I think I've looked through the Amazon offerings in the past, and they all looked like cheap plastic versions.
Thanks!
EDIT -- Because of a strange forum glitch, there is another image attached at the bottom of my ost. The color oredr appears to be different in that image, but I'm not sure...https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...yuA_6UMtCcAKjGf7HimnxDa0bqkfJveY93ywMSdna8cPA
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Rubik%E2%80%99s_cube_colors.svg/220px-Rubik%E2%80%99s_cube_colors.svg.png
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