Papervision3D Rubik’s Cube!

To use this swf, just click on the arrows to turn the faces of the cube, and drag the mouse to turn the whole cube:

A friend of mine and I were joking one day that the least accessible interface around would require you to solve a Rubik’s cube before you could click a button or interact with it. Later that day I read an article on Papervision3D and the idea came to me to create a Rubik’s cube in Papervision3D. I thought it would be a great way to learn more about Papervision3D and something fun to work on. I had arrows for the top and bottom face of the cube, but it was just too much on the screen and was difficult to see much in the 3/4 overhead view with those arrows in too.

I ended up learning more about coordinate systems and arrays than I did about Papervision, but it was still a blast. At any rate, I plan to keep adding to it over time. I’d like to have the initial configuration load from XML and I also plan on writing a class to check to see if the cube has been solved after each move. All of that will have to wait though, since I just got my invite into Google’s Appengine and I’m really psyched to learn some more about it!