http://www.gravitation3d.com/magiccube5d/

I present a challenge to you all.
Solve this.

There are 701,667,712,402,950,678,588,563,925,537,442,843,125,814,486,474,172,376,339,080,083,735,
282,432,570,880,422,175,614,251,163,058,229,250,653,847,841,202,640,036,019,428,140,364,
685,715,598,365,298,331,873,395,846,086,528,536,260,972,280,760,386,269,552,019,118,684,
785,923,871,866,118,371,825,759,785,012,234,146,827,079,564,220,427,338,910,666,898,674,
313,780,003,300,502,236,858,905,700,554,243,767,722,706,512,968,255,467,907,689,651,857,
607,094,055,701,717,148,055,663,687,118,563,692,897,948,419,085,505,315,326,824,962,012,
039,175,406,034,820,217,915,303,954,177,226,545,938,524,363,992,267,629,090,384,186,791,
766,814,569,267,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible permutations. (32!/2)(60^32)(80!/2)(24^80/2)(40!*80!/2)(6^80/2)(2^40/2)
Or, approx. 7.0 x 10^560

List of people who have solved this can be found in the Hall of Insanity



Here be the 4D version. No download required... http://www.superliminal.com/cube/applet.html

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Sep 10 2010, 10:35 pm by OlimarandLouie.

Sign me up. How many actions do we get per turn?

I don't understand this concept at all. The visuals are not helping.

We need to install something in order to try this?

For a 3D rubik's cube, you are taking one plane and rotating relative to the rest of the cube. For a 4D cube, you are taking one CUBE and rotating it relative to the rest of the hypercube, etc. (Your axis of rotation is a plane, but let's disregard that for now)

Mathematically, it's easy to represent the rotations, and it's easy to create a projection of the 5D entity into 3D, which is then mapped to 2D on your screen. Solving it requires thinking in terms of numerical values, rather than trying to visualize the entity, because when you try visualizing it, you inevitably think about rotation about an axis, which is not how it works at all.

If you mess around with the applet for a while, you should get the gist of it.

After watching the video, I felt like I was tripping out, not sure how I'd even begin to fathom how to do it.

Quote from OlimarandLouie

Blah.

You stole the 4D Cube from me, didn't you? BTW, download the .jar for the 4D cube. There are some interesting things you can do...

More like "inspired"

I can't even do a 2-d rubix cube.

Can'd do this?

3d is easy enough once you remember the algorithms...
i cant fathom 4D however

Either I'm way too stupid or this is taking it too far. I hope it's the latter...

Slightly off topic but, if you thought that video was trippy, watch this.

http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?width=96&height=96&yt=p4OOANjPHBs&flux=1&direction=rand