Description
Is there really something new to discover about our good old six-sided die? Well, I just did :) Nothing Earth-shattering and definitely a combo of things we've known for a while, still very neat I think. Let's see whether you agree :)
Here is the javascript app that me and my new best coding buddy ChatGPT vibed together for this video. You may have to adjust the width of your browser window to align the orange frames with the two Rubik's cube simulators on this page.
https://www.qedcat.com/parity/invariant.html
00:00 Intro
02:04 Magnet mechanism
03:07 App
09:31 Magnet cubes
13:28 Drilling cubes
13:37 Thanks
The relevant info about the arrangement of numbers of a die
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice#Arrangement
The 1970 patent of a magnetic "Rubik's" cube by Larry D Nichols
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s_Cube#History
Check out this classic Mathologer video about magnet Rubik's cubes
https://youtu.be/Xb8ENlS-5Go
Owen Lillywhite's Magneticcube.com is no more (he closed shop in 2021), but here is a backup of the website at the waybackmachine. Worth a visit :)
https://web.archive.org/web/20201108155048/https://magneticcube.com/
If this link does not work for you go to https://web.archive.org and search for https://magneticcube.com/
Music: Ziv Moran: The Bridge
T-shirt: The impossible board game t-shirt https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/300445-the-impossible-board-game
Enjoy!
Burkard
P.S.: There were two entries in the last video’s coding competition, and both were fantastic, each deserving of a first prize.
Ed Collen: https://2x2x2x2.vercel.app/cube
Rebelkeithy: https://rebelkeithy.github.io/TheHedgehog