Cube Twister

CUBE TWISTER

CubeTwister is a companion to the Rubik's Cube. It is suited for beginners, cube lovers, speed-cubers and mathematicians.

You can use it as a tool to solve your scrambled cube, to document your collection of cubes, to describe your solution algorithms, and to analyse the permutations of cube parts.

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Accurate 3D models
CubeTwister provides Accurate 3D models of Rubik's Cube 3x3, Pocket Cube 2x2, Revenge Cube 4x4, Professor Cube 5x5, V-Cube 6 6x6, V-Cube 7 7x7, Barrel Cube, Diamond Cube and Octahedron Cube. All models can have individual color schemes and can even be disassembled.
You can edit the models to reflect your personal collection of cubes.
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Configurable Parser
CubeTwister has a configurable parser. The parser supports quarter-turn twists, half-turn-twists, rotations, permutations, inversions, reflections, repetitions, conjugations, commutations, and macros.
You can define your own notation, and you can translate between notations.
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Database
CubeTwister has a database for scripts, maneuvers and pretty patterns.
Cubes, Notations, Scripts and Texts are organized in a tree structure.
The documents are saved in XML format and can be edited using other XML tools.
You can enter all your scripts and supportive documentation in CubeTwister
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Solver
CubeTwister features a Kociemba Two-Phase Solver for Rubik's Cube 3x3 (derived from Greg Schmidt's KCube program). The solver generates scripts which are only two or three twists longer than the optimal solution.
You can enter an arbitrary state of the cube und let it solve, and you can optimise your scripts using the solver.
* Publish
Publish your scripts in the Internet. CubeTwister can create HTML pages with interactive Java applets for each cube design and cube script. Individual scripts can be exported as QuickTime movies and video still images.

License Fee

Use of CubeTwister is free for personal use. If you have a feature request or if you want to honour my work for CubeTwister, send me a bottle of good wine.
System Requirements

* Any operating system will do, including but not limited to Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Unix and Windows.
* On some operating systems (esp. Windows) you have to install a Java 2 Runtime Environment 1.5 (or higher) before you can install CubeTwister (download Java from Javasoft)
* 1024 MB of RAM
* 30 MB of free disk space.