Re: rubik's cube

[Oz Adi <oz(at)broadcast.co.il>]

thanks guys, for the info.

I've already tried the freeze transforms idea, and it does work, the 
only thing that bothers me is, when the client want to change
some animation, it should be a nightmare (I need to do a 25-30 sec one 
shot animation)

To try and improve this method,
I am thinking of having a square curve near each of the cube's side, 
and  a ppg with 6 boolean switches, each switch for each sqaure curve,
as the animator, it's my responsibility to make sure, only one switch 
can be on in a given time.
Then have a scop on each little cube, to check which switch in on, and 
rotate with it's corresponding square curve
this is of course, some kind of a "simulation", meaning I cannot scrub 
the timeline, because the little cubes has no keyframes.
image: http://www.ozadi.com/pix/rubiks.jpg
but maybe after the animation is approved I can plot their transfomrs.

what do you think?





Joe Laffey wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, kim aldis wrote:
>
> > You can pull them apart easily enough if you want to see how they 
> > work. Peel
> > the colours off and you'll see the screws that hold it together.
>
>
> No need to remove screws to take the Rubik's apart. Just turn one side 
> 45 degrees, and then either stick a flathead screwdriver, or your 
> thumb under the middle cube of the row and lift.
>
>
> I am sure there is Google/YouTube reference for this.
>
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