IMPOSSIBLE: Solving 4D Rubik's cubes in physical 3D (no simulator!)
I’ve been meaning to make this video about building and solving physical 4D Rubik’s cubes ever since Melinda Green sent me one of her brilliant physical 2x2x2x2s back in 2017! Why did it take so long? Well, this one was especially tricky to get right, and I think it’s probably the video that took me the longest to put together. I really hope you like this one :)00:00 Intro
03:53 Warm-up
08:59 4d
14:13 Fancy moves
20:24 Solve
26:20 Melinda
31:27 Coding challenge
31:46 What's next?
33:54 Gallery of animations
36:10 Thank you !
Melinda's 2x2x2x2 home page (go there straightaway !)
https://superliminal.com/cube/2x2x2x2/
Melinda's YouTube page. Check out her 4D Twisty puzzle playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/c/melindagreen
Zasharan2 Melinda's 2x2x2x2 simulator
https://zasharan2.github.io/2x2x2x2
A playlist of different ways to perform a gyro in Melinda's puzzle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Fh_1m0UVY&list=PLx1mIVtz33hJbAiFSsfsQ_IlAB1_fuAVc
Joel Karlsson animation showing the correspondence between a different unfolded version of the real 2x2x2x2 and Melinda's puzzle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvhkGRUeGco
Everything about higher-dimensional twisty puzzles
https://hypercubing.xyz
MagicCube4D is a fully functional four-dimensional analog of Rubik's cube plus dozens of other beautiful 4D puzzles.
https://superliminal.com/cube/
Relevant Mathologer videos:
Cracking the 4D Rubik's Cube with simple 3D tricks (solving the 3x3x3x3 in MagicCube4D)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhPH1369OWc
Can you solve THE Klein Bottle Rubik's cube?
https://youtu.be/DvZnh7-nslo
A simple trick to design your own solutions for Rubik's cubes
https://youtu.be/-NL76uQOpI0
One of my Mathematica files---an animation of the hedgehog giro (.nb and .pdf)
https://www.qedcat.com/4dRubik
Hyperspeedcube, the name says it all
https://hypercubing.xyz/software/hyperspeedcube/
Piles of other simulators
https://hypercubing.xyz/software/
Grant Staten solves Melinda's 2x2x2x2 in under a minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIEu38wsjtM
The Unpopular Cuber solves the 3x3x3x3 using a simulator (the crazy action clip at the end of this video are a couple of seconds from this solve)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GPtYwmSeIU
Some mathematical articles worth checking out:
The Rubik tesseract by H. J. Kamack and T. R. Keane
https://udel.edu/~tomkeane/RubikTesseract.pdf
Rubik's Tesseract by Dan Velleman in Mathematics Magazine (1992), 65:1, 27-36. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2691357
n-dimensional sequential move puzzle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-dimensional_sequential_move_puzzle
Thank you very much to Melinda for all her help with this video. Also thank you to Vivian and Cristian from Monash's FutureLab for their help with 3d printing the connectors that hold the cubies in my hedgehog together.
Music: Morning Mandolin by Chris Haugen
Enjoy!
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