Message #1791

From: Andrey <andreyastrelin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Magic 120-cell solved using MPUlt v1.06
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:01:53 -0000

Nan,
Congratulations with the solve!
So far I solved only some 2C pieces of this puzzles, but my method is the following:
I select some face, change its color to white (by shift-right click), then select some piece that has white sticker and is not at the white face. I highlight it (and always see where it’s now), and move it to any free place at white face. Then I sort and reorient pieces at white face (change some other faces to white for this).

Andrey

— In 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com, "schuma" <mananself@…> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> I just solved the mighty 120-cell using Andrey’s MPUlt. Note that the puzzle definition was provided in a separate file <http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/4D_Cubing/files/Andrey/MPUlt_puzzles.txt>. The log file can be found here <http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/4D_Cubing/files/Nan%20Ma/>.
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> This solution took 54.5 hours and 78550 moves. I started this solution in the beginning of June. After solving 3%, I suspended it because I was not sure that I wanted to do it now. Nine days ago, however, I determined to solve it full throttle. So I solved 97% of the 120-cell in nine days (a whole week plus a weekend). Six hours per day on average. I am exhausted…
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> Comparing Roice’s Magic 120-cell and Andrey’s MPUlt, each has pro and con. Please correct me if I’m wrong. To the best of my knowledge, Roice’s version has the piece-finding function, but no macros. Andrey’s version has macros, but no piece-finding function. I’m used to using macros so I chose Andrey’s version. But I have to figure out some ways to find the pieces. Shift+right click can only highlight one cell at a time, and is not very helpful in such a large puzzle.
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> My piece-finding method is: changing all cells to black and then the 3~4 stickers on a piece to 3~4 colors. This way the destination of the piece is immediately visible. As a result, I spent more than half of my time changing the colors from black to color or from color to black.
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> Phew…
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> Nan
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