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Sithdarth
01-14-2006, 12:13 PM
As the sig says brain melty fun (http://www.superliminal.com/cube/applet.html)

Thats right folks its a Rubik's Hypercube. You can play with the Java applet or download the program and get one of your very own to solve.

mammothtank
01-14-2006, 01:40 PM
Aw, it's not working for me... but you say it's 4-dimensional? Geez. I can never solve even a normal Rubik's Cube.

Psycho Mantis
01-14-2006, 01:48 PM
I thought the 4th dimension was time.

Sithdarth
01-14-2006, 01:48 PM
Its a Java Appelet and I think written in the latest code so you're going to need to update you Java to mess with it I think. Try downloading this and installing it (http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp) first. It might help.

Traditionally it is but that doesn't stop people from imagining for spacial dimension and creating cool stuff like this.

Adghar
01-14-2006, 01:58 PM
I find that this (http://www1.tip.nl/~t515027/hypercube.html) explains the fourth dimension quite nicely.

The Wizard Who Did It
01-14-2006, 02:12 PM
To put it rather bluntly, time is the dimension one step higher than that in which the object percieves things. So, since we see in 3 dimensions, time is the fourth. This hypercube works as for a being that can see in 4 dimensions, or something like that. As another example, for someone in flat-land, time is the third dimension.

Overall, cool and f*ed up simulation. Although if you know the tricks, the original rubik's cube is not all that difficult. But there are more complicated and obnoxious ones in than the original, and those suck.

Yakubyougami
01-14-2006, 06:02 PM
Awww.. damn - tis not working for me, and I love solving these kinds of things too.

gurusloth
01-14-2006, 11:05 PM
The only problem is that it starts out solved. You have to have some sadistic friend come over and mess it all up first, then you can try to solve it. It is a pretty cool thing-a-ma-jigger, though.

Sithdarth
01-14-2006, 11:11 PM
If you scroll down a bit there is one you can download. You just save the .jar file to your harddrive somewhere then double click it to start the program. This one has several differnt modes allowing you to start of with a 2x2x2x2 cube with only one random turn and work all the way up to a 5x5x5x5 cube fully scrambled. So far I've made it to a 2x2x2x2 cube with 5 random turns.

neyo the king
01-15-2006, 04:29 AM
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Why do people do these things to me?

My God, I had my brother mix me up a good one, and I spent 3 hours on the thing before giving up!
Although I did get one of the outer sections done...

Flarecobra
01-15-2006, 06:05 PM
Heh, this is now starting to make rounds around my squadron. It's especaly popular for those that have duty in our birthing.

Sithdarth
01-16-2006, 01:02 AM
This thing is rather addictive I messed with it for like 4 hours straight yesterday and I've been trying my damnedess to not slip back into doing that again today or night.

TheBlindMime
01-17-2006, 02:52 AM
Damn you sithdarth, stop trying to break my brain!

I swear you post stuff like this just to brag. We all get it. You're smart. Stop trying to break us!

CheshireThief
01-17-2006, 03:26 AM
Damn you sithdarth, stop trying to break my brain!

I swear you post stuff like this just to brag. We all get it. You're smart. Stop trying to break us!

What are you talking about? I solved this thing easily.

TheBlindMime
01-17-2006, 03:33 AM
Don't think I'm not onto your gambit OhCheshireOne! Your reckoning will be at hand one day soon as the spinning cubes of dismay and torment shall strike you down for you are a liar!

LIAR!

SING A SONG ABOUT HOW YOU'RE A LIAR, HUH, CAN YOU DO THAT!


You probably didn't even play the stupid thing you liar.



jerk....

CheshireThief
01-17-2006, 03:38 AM
Don't think I'm not onto your gambit OhCheshireOne! Your reckoning will be at hand one day soon as the spinning cubes of dismay and torment shall strike you down for you are a liar!

LIAR!

SING A SONG ABOUT HOW YOU'RE A LIAR, HUH, CAN YOU DO THAT!


You probably didn't even play the stupid thing you liar.



jerk....


Would you like to have hot man sex with me? If so, I'll teach you the secrets of solving it.
Like buttsex for the fourth move!
And I haven't quite solved as far as Sithdarth. The trick I've been using is my natural luck and randomly making turns.

TheBlindMime
01-17-2006, 03:45 AM
Would you like to have hot man sex with me? If so, I'll teach you the secrets of solving it.
Like buttsex for the fourth move!
And I haven't quite solved as far as Sithdarth. The trick I've been using is my natural luck and randomly making turns.
No.... I'm..... I'm good. And I really wish you would stop prepositioning me like that, I thought we moved to the point where you don't even need to ask.
I don't believe thats the official fourth move but I'll take your word on it
Besides I just figured out the best use for the thing, I spun the cube and then moved my mouse off the applet so now it just spins of its own accord. Spinning things both amuse and enlighten those of us unwilling to play.

CheshireThief
01-17-2006, 03:48 AM
No.... I'm..... I'm good. And I really wish you would stop prepositioning me like that, I thought we moved to the point where you don't even need to ask.
I don't believe thats the official fourth move but I'll take your word on it
Besides I just figured out the best use for the thing, I spun the cube and then moved my mouse off the applet so now it just spins of its own accord. Spinning things both amuse and enlighten those of us unwilling to play.

OF! WITH! FOR!
I eat Mimes for breakfast. With prepositions.
Preposition THAT!

Also, yes, I found the spinning thing out quite quickly as well.

Funka Genocide
01-17-2006, 03:57 AM
I messed it up for about 15 minutes, reconstructed one side of green blocks and then quit, because it would most likely eat my soul if I let it.

heh, spatchcock...

TheBlindMime
01-17-2006, 04:12 AM
OF! WITH! FOR!
I eat Mimes for breakfast. With prepositions.
Preposition THAT!

Also, yes, I found the spinning thing out quite quickly as well.
Hey! don't you try to correct me mister, I have the internet the ultimate source of a lack of information.other then porn!

Check this: pre·po·si·tion2 also pre-po·si·tion Audio pronunciation of "prepositioning" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (prp-zshn)
tr.v. pre·po·si·tioned, pre·po·si·tion·ing, pre·po·si·tions

To position or place in position in advance: artillery that was prepositioned at strategic points in the desert.

Two meanings, whats one to do now, so let me you it in a sentence for you.
My use of prepositioned was incorrect and yours was incomplete so I still spite thee
I prepositioned my day with some eggs, bacon and a toast I made the night before.

Wow, my spiteful response was quite lame, I guess I'll just go back to spinning my cube. And Lordi! Take that Knave!

CheshireThief
01-17-2006, 04:15 AM
Silly Blind Mime. Spinning my cube is only a thinly disguised euphemism for masturbation.
Threadjacking is fun!
And Funka, once you get one side done, it gets easy! Come now! You can finish it!