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Cube Squared: iPhone App meets Rubik |
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Dr. Samuel Says -
Smart Design
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009 |
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Everyone has a weakness, and mine is spatial thinking. Also, bad Italian horror films. And a particular variety of narcotic neurostimulants you can only get out of Switzerland. But these are stories for another time -- let’s get back to spatial thinking.
I really do rather suck at it, a pattern that has shown up in
standardized tests since I was six years old. As such, the ubiquitous
Rubik’s Cube has forever been a thorn in my side.
Thank the
gods, technology has come to the rescue. CubeCheater is a new iPhone
app that will solve your Rubik’s Cube puzzle for you, in 20 moves or
less. The genius of it is that all you have to do is take pictures of
the Rubik’s cube six faces with the phone. The app then crunches the
numbers and provides a step-by-step solution via the 3D interface.
Such
solvers have been available online for a long while, of course. The
beauty here is the portability of the iPhone and the camera trick. Next
time that runty little cube shows up at a party, I’m taking it down.
With technology!
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