OCaml Rubik's Cube

OCaml Rubik's Cube is a full modelisation of a Rubik's cube, with graphical representation and interactive animation

User manual

Once the graphical Window is opened, you have a few actions that you can make to the cube :

• Esc : Exit
• z,q,s,d : Move the point of view around the Cube (Yes, this is AZERTY equivalent of w,a,s,d)
• a : Reset the point of view
• m : Shuffle the cube
• l : Reinitialize the cube
• 1,2,3,4,5,6 : Select a face by its central color (1: white, 2: blue, 3: orange, 4: green, 5: red, 6: yellow). Once you have selected a face, you can turn it by typing :
  • 1 : Trun clockwise
  • 2 : Half-turn
  • 3 : Turn anti-clockwise
  • 4 : Cancel selection
• Backspace : Undo last movement
• Space : Step-by-step resolution
• Return : Full resolution

Please note that the resolution algorith never was finished, and can even end on an infinite loop ...

Building

If you have a x64 computer running Linux, you just need to execute the file ocaml_rubiks_cube_compiled.

In any other situation, you will either need to build it yourself, or to run it interactively. In both cases, you will need the OCaml graphics library.

• To complite the program natively : ocamlopt graphics.cmxa ocaml_rubiks_cube.ml -o ocaml_rubiks_cube_compiled

• To compile it in bytecode : ocamlc graphics.cma ocaml_rubiks_cube.ml -o rubik_bytecode

You can then run it with ocamlmktop

• You can use a program such as WinCaml, but you will need to uncomment the first line of the file

Remarks

As you might have imagined, this code was initially not written to be publicly publised and shared, it was written for a school project and should be considered as such.

It was also written before our discovery of git, that's why most of the history and some related instructions are lost. It's a kind of prehistory !