Welcome to the repository for an early prototype of Cubies. Since Cubies now lives in the browser enviornment, this project's pretty much dead. However, there's definitely a lot of room for growth if any one is interested.
This project was meant to understand how to design the user experience in Cubies. How a user can 1) navigate 3D space using an orbital camera, 2) interact with a polycube, and 3) make sense of unfolding in a space where rotation kinda doesn't matter was not something we could have (or had the experience to) just imagine. Thus, we jumped into Unity to test it, since I already had experience with the engine.
The result: the user can interact with a Dali Cross floating in 3D space. The controls are not nearly as intuitive as what's in Cubies, though, and I didn't design a UI to explain them, either. I was planning on fixing that, but then the decision was made to do it with Three.js.
I made this in the Unity engine, scripted in C#. The components of the cubes are simple meshes I made in Blender.
Go to the file titled Cubies to see the bulk of this project's code. If you have some experience with the Unity engine, the project's organization should make sense.
Then go through Assets > Scripts > CUBESv0_1 to find the code that goes into the main application (every thing else was mostly for testing purposes). The place to start to follow my code would be the file called TestSystemScript.cs.
If you want to run the project, run Cubies > RunPolycube.exe. Check out the controls in CONTROLS.md.
Go for it! Unfortunately, I did not document my code as well as I should have. I hammered it out between my classes, after all. However, if there's an interest in getting Cubies working on the Unity engine, I will be happy to provide guidance.
As of June 2017, Cubies was ported to the browser-based environment, where it is currently being supported by myself and some research students. Check out the repository or check out the application for yourself!