Source code powering @lastlayeralgs.
Running the binary with the command following <alg> will cause the program to output the first last layer algorithm that comes after <alg> and then exit:
$ cargo run following "R' U' R U' R' U2 R"
R' F2 L F L' F R
The program will read the file last to determine the last alg it tweeted, tweet the next one, and update last.
It will look in the file creds to find the Twitter credentials it should use.
The format of the credentials file should be
consumer key
consumer secret
access key
access secret
The current cube representation (storing each sticker) has a lot of benefits:
- it's simple,
- just one component, doesn't require a separate orientation and permutation and corners and edges,
- can be very easily used to generate images, since we have each sticker.
But it has a bunch of downsides as well:
- it's not a very compact format, so we do more work than necessary when we apply a move,
- it's difficult to optimize and prune the search tree because it doesn't really represent the structure of the cube very well,
- since it's all one component, we can't speed it up in small chunks by replacing components with lookup tables.
So this is just to say I eventually plan to change the current representation to one that stores the permutation and orientation of corners and edges independently.