Message #1738

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] MPUlt v1.0 is ready!
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:06:26 -0500

Awesome Andrey! The 32-cell is intriguing (I had never seen it), and it’s
exciting to see the truncated and rectified 24-cell puzzles in there as
well. Nice work!

We seem to be in a period of time where puzzle creation is outstripping
puzzle solutions. How long that trend continues remains to be seen, but
hopefully the graphs are not diverging :) I will say one excellent thing
about there being so many objects out there right now is that it is easy to
choose one and be the very first to go explore it.

If you’d like to take a break from making puzzles, I have a feature request.
I love the autorotation in MC4D because I can set an object spinning to
study it. It would be great to be able to do that here too.

Cheers,
Roice

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Andrey <andreyastrelin@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Its web page is http://astr73.narod.ru/MPUlt/MPUlt.html . You can also
> download program from this place:
> http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/4D_Cubing/files/Andrey/MPUlt.zip
>
> Now there are about 30 puzzles - check Puzzle menu for them. I haven’t
> solved any of them yet (if we don’t include 3^4 and 3^5): now it’s more
> interesting for me to look for new puzzles.
>
> One new feature - "temporary macros": if you press Shift-F7, then make some
> twists and press F7, then every time after that when you press F7, this
> sequence of twists will be repeated (in the same part of the puzzle body -
> no autoreferncing here). It’s useful when you want to make sequence like
> (ABCD)^3, or repeat some multiclick twist several times. Second macro is on
> Shift-F8/F8 keys.
>
> Known misfeatures:
> - ranking of pieces doesn’t work for half-cut puzzles (all pieces have rank
> 0 because they are connected to the center of body)
> - there is no macros for 5D and more.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Andrey
>
>