From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Tue Jun 8 20:03:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id UAA01196 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:03:25 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu From: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) Message-Id: <199906081306.GAA24838@necro.ugcs.caltech.edu> Subject: Re: Standard file format for Rubik's Cube is just about ready To: michas@androsoft.com Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 06:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Cc: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu In-Reply-To: <001201beb186$4ef27880$0401a8c0@sanyi.android.com> from "michas@androsoft.com" at Jun 8, 99 10:10:01 am Reply-To: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu > >[Moderator's note: You say white opposite blue was common, but when > > was that? My experience and other reports lead me to believe that > > what you call the "purist" color scheme was most common in 1985 (viz > > _Rubik's_Cubic_Compendium_) and I don't recall seeing any change > > since. It also is reportedly most common in the chirality you > > describe, which is called the BOY version because blue, orange, and > > yellow appear in that order clockwise around a corner. The mirror > > image coloring is called YOB (a Cockney term for a yokel). I don't > > know of any cute naming schemes for the enantiomorphs in color > > schemes in which the blue, orange, and yellow faces do not all > > meet--Dan ] I'm going by what I have observed -- which is mostly Ideal cubes. The Ideal Deluxe cube has white opposite blue, as well as their Revenge and the three normal cubes I have in my collection. I can check the orientation of the minicubes in Rubik's Race and the "deluxe-ish" cube supplied with Rubik's Game. The 5x5x5 in my collection is also white opposite blue, although it isn't Ideal (pun intended). The OddzOn cubes are also blue opposite white, so I think it's safe to say that the majority of cubes out there are blue opposite white. From http://www.rubiks.com/cubesolution_new.html : >Note: we use the color arrangement of the original Rubik's cube (i.e. >blue is opposite to green, red is opposite to orange, and yellow is >opposite to white; if the blue side is on the top, then the red is >on the left and the yellow on the right, and so on), because this >is the one Erno Rubik prefers. The new Rubik's Cubes made by OddzOn >since 1995 are colored differently (i.e. blue is opposite to white, >green is opposite to yellow, and red is opposite to orange). -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is there a metonym in this sentence?