Feels good to see a past project pop up unexpectedly.

Feels good to see a past project pop up unexpectedly.  The 5D Rubik's cube was born in 2006 in the 4D_Cubing yahoo group, though it was conceived much earlier!  See this 1982 paper by Kamack and Keane:
http://helm.lu/cube/tesseract.pdf

Here's the 4D_Cubing page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/4D_Cubing/info

And you can browse the messages from March to May 2006, when all the excitement was happening:
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/4D_Cubing/conversations/messages?messageStartId=215&archiveSearch=true

This is the first time I've seen the new yahoo groups interface, so hopefully those links will work.

Originally shared by annarita ruberto

MagicCube5D

In the spirit of taking things too far, here is a fully functional 5-dimensional analogue of Rubik's cube.

The 3D cube has 43252003274489856000 permutations.

Go here to learn more and  download the program:
http://www.gravitation3d.com/magiccube5d/index.html

Here you find  Erno Rubik, the inventor of  famous Rubik's Cube:
https://plus.google.com/+ErnoRubik/posts

#mathematics   #rubikcube