RUBIK'S CUBE

A Simulator of a Rubik's Cube (without self-solving ability) under OpenGL, MFC.

Instruction

Key	Action
Enter	Reset
R	Right clockwise 90°
U	Up clockwise 90°
F	Front clockwise 90°
L	Left clockwise 90°
D	Down clockwise 90°
B	Back clockwise 90°
X	Rotate 90° around the X-axis
Y	Rotate 90° around the Y-axis
Z	Rotate 90° around the Z-axis
Shift + R	Right counterclockwise 90°
etc.	$ \vdots $
Arrows	Translate the Cube
A	Auto-play from the beginning (after opening a file)
E	Stop auto-play (after opening a file)

Mouse Button	Action
Left click on centers	Face counterclockwise 90°
Right click on centers	Face clockwise 90°
Drag the left button	Rotate the view

Side Buttons:

• OpenGL

  • Anti-aliasing
  • Gouraud
  • Lighting: Turn lighting on/off & switch style
  • Vertex: Render vertexes only
  • Wireframes: Render wireframes only
  • Face: Render faces only

• Magic Cube

  • Using Textures: Use bitmaps in .\res as the pattern on the cube (customizable, must keep the same filename)
  • Centers: Draw centers
  • Edges: Draw edges
  • Vertexes: Draw vertexes
  • Rotation Limit: Clamp view rotation into F(Front) ± 90°

• Scaling

  • Link: Lock the scale on 1:1:1
  • X: X-scaling
  • Y: Y-scaling
  • Z: Z-scaling

• Light

  • Rotation
  • Depression
  • Distance
  • Spot Light: Switch between point light and spotlight

Auto-play

• Click the "Open" button to open and read a formula file, and press A to auto-play. Manual actions are not allowed when auto-playing; press E to quit auto-play.

• The formats can be found in .\res\sample_formula.txt.

  • Make sure the apostrophes to be dumb and split moves by spaces.
  • Auto-play will stop at the first unrecognizable character.

• All recognizable moves (case sensitive):

  R R' R2 U U' U2 F F' F2
  L L' L2 D D' D2 B B' B2
  x x' x2 y y' y2 z z' z2

• M(Middle) and lowercase letter(double layer) moves are not supported for now, please convert them manually.

• Counter-clockwise 180° moves are not supported for now, please convert them to clockwise 180° manually.