Waltzing Rubik's Cube

Rendered with POV-Ray

(In response to hahaitzkevinxp)
This took less than a day of work:

-Reconfigure POV-Ray animation code to work with time-based macros.
-Use Synthfont to render the song from MIDI.
-Write a GameMaker program to manually synchronize twist times.
-Come up with a nice 70-move identity algorithm -with the help of CubeExplorer.
-Use Mathematica to create the macro callling list for the algorithm.
-Fix bugs.
-Render a gazillion times, and a final time for 10 minutes.
-While doing test renders, use Audacity to edit the sound file to line up better and end correctly.
-Use ffmpeg to join the video and audio at full quality.

Only 7 programs (6 of them free).
Simple & straightforward :-)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Rubik's
• cube
• POV-Ray
• render
• animation
• Waltz
• of
• the
• Blue
• Danube

[Levinous]

That is not a waltz! XD

But I love how it solves itself again at the end.

[LucasGarron]

Oh? Then what's a waltz? ;-)

(And why does the composer not know what's not a waltz?)

[KConny]

Cube in cube at 11 sec, super flip at 20 sec and dots at 32. :D

[LucasGarron]

Yip. :-)

[seahyimin]

nice, what piece is that? i hear it a lot

[LucasGarron]

Waltz of the Blue Danube. By Strauss.

[swordsmankirby]

Cube in cube in cube, to be precise. :P

[Cschive]

Ha! solving is one thing, but solving it to music is another

[NerdGradeA1]

I lol'd at the slow turning at :29 :P

[Angeljericho134]

waw i engoyed it

[kaifoxdemon]

oh so very...

[AJPR1995]

cool... I have videos of rubik's cube too

[XTheAndyX]

woah, i never knew this was by you lucas o_0

[eggrollXXXM]

so random!

[acooldude0]

Very nice =)

[Levinous]

I think this video gives the basic idea of what the movement is like. TFAGFyRYyHY

(replace the video code at the end with that code)