Square-1 Animations
After creating a POV-Ray system for animating Square-1, I proceeded to applying it to algorithms. And for usefulness in speedsolving, I could think of none better than Vandenbergh's. I emailed him for permission to create animations for all the algorithms; he replied affirmatively in half an hour. It took me an extra week to code the batch file with the proper includes, and here is the result.Algorithm | Video file |
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Step 2-Corners into their layers | |
#1 | |
#2 | |
#3 | |
#4 | |
#5 | |
Step 3-Edges into their layers | |
#1 | |
#2 | |
#3 | |
#4 | |
#5 | |
#6 | |
#7 | |
Step 4-Corner Permutation | |
#1 | |
#2 | |
#3 | |
#4 | |
#5 | |
#6 | |
#7 | |
#8 | |
Step 5-Edge Permutation | |
1 swap in U, 0 swaps in D; #1 | |
1 swap in U, 0 swaps in D; #2 | |
2 swaps in U, 0 swaps in D; #1 | |
2 swaps in U, 0 swaps in D; #2 | |
2 swaps in U, 0 swaps in D; #3 | |
2 swaps in U, 0 swaps in D; #4 | |
3 swaps in U, 0 swaps in D; #1 | |
3 swaps in U, 0 swaps in D; #2 | |
3 swaps in U, 0 swaps in D; #3 | |
1 swap in U, 1 swap in D; #1 | |
1 swap in U, 1 swap in D; #2 | |
1 swap in U, 1 swap in D; #3 | |
2 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #1 | |
2 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #2 | |
2 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #3 | |
2 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #4 | |
2 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #5 | |
2 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #6 | |
2 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #7 | |
2 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #8 | |
3 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #1 | |
3 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #2 | |
3 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #3 | |
3 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #4 | |
3 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #5 | |
3 swaps in U, 1 swap in D; #6 | |
2 swaps in U, 2 swaps in D; #1 | |
2 swaps in U, 2 swaps in D; #2 | |
2 swaps in U, 2 swaps in D; #3 | |
2 swaps in U, 2 swaps in D; #4 | |
2 swaps in U, 2 swaps in D; #5 | |
2 swaps in U, 2 swaps in D; #6 | |
2 swaps in U, 2 swaps in D; #7 | |
2 swaps in U, 2 swaps in D; #8 | |
2 swaps in U, 2 swaps in D; #9 | |
2 swaps in U, 2 swaps in D; #10 | |
Fixing the middle layer, and swapping layers | |
#1 | |
#2 | |
#3 | |