Message #3599

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Generating additional puzzles for MagicTile
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 22:46:01 -0600

Cool puzzle Nan! I’ve added it to the main distribution.

I debugged the behavior with the beep. It was because the very thick cuts
complicated slicing enough that the engine produced some stickers with zero
area. The program was tracking 15 stickers per face rather than 10 (5 of
them degenerate). I made a code change so that zero area stickers are
removed during puzzle building, which corrects the issue. My apologies -
there’s no way to fix up your existing solution file, but your puzzle file
will behave correctly with the latest download. Thanks for stretching the
engine a bit further!

Cheers,
Roice

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:41 PM, mananself@gmail.com [4D_Cubing] <
4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Following the guide, I was able to create "Helicopter Hemi-Dodecahedron".
> The definition and solution files are here:
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/4D_Cubing/files/Nan%20Ma
> /MagicTileFiles/
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> I intentionally made the cut very thick to remove some pieces. At the end
> of my solve, I didn’t hear the beep sound. I don’t know if there are more
> pieces than I see, which I didn’t solve. Roice, you can load my solution
> file, ctrl-Z and then ctrl-Y to verify there isn’t a beep.
>
> About the puzzle, it’s the hemi-dodec version of
> TwistyPuzzles.com > Museum > Helicopter Dodecahedron
> <http://www.twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=1722>
> [image: image] <http://www.twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=1722>
> TwistyPuzzles.com > Museum > Helicopter Dodecahedr…
> <http://www.twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=1722>
> Above:Solved Click a thumbnail to see its larger version and description.
> Many people would call this the "True" Helicopter Dodecahedron…
> View on www.twistypuzzles.com
> <http://www.twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=1722>
> Preview by Yahoo
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> It contains only those pieces in the original helicopter cube. It’s a
> subset of the pieces in E0:1:0 or E0:1:0.11. Compared to E0:1:0, it has the
> "an extra challenge to solving because of an invisible orientation". The
> same challenge is there in E0:1:0.11. I won’t say more, but Michael and Ed
> probably know what that is.
>
> Since my variation has fewer pieces, I think it has a greater
> concentration of challenges. You don’t need to handle many tedious 1C
> pieces. I enjoyed solving it without macros in 180 moves.
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