TRANSFORMATIONS.txt (1059B)
1 Transformations can be either simple rotations or a rotation composed 2 with a mirroring. 3 4 Simple rotations are denoted by two letters corresponding to the faces 5 to be moved to the U and F positions, respectively. For example FD is 6 the rotation that brings the F face on top and the D face on front. 7 8 A composed rotation + mirror is obtained by applying the corresponding 9 rotation to the solved cube mirrored along the M plane. 10 11 For example, to apply the transformation RBm (mirrored RB) to a cube C: 12 1a. Apply a mirror along the M plane to the solved cube 13 1b. Rotate the mirrored cube with z' y2 14 3. Apply the cube C to the transformed solved cube 15 4. Apply the transformations of step 1a and 1b in reverse 16 17 The orientation of pieces after a rotation ignores the new position 18 of centers. A rotated cube can technically be inconsistent, because 19 the parity of the edge permutation has to be adjusted considering the 20 parity of the centers, which we ignore. 21 22 The utility script mirror.sh transforms a solved, rotated cube to its 23 mirrored and rotated version.