Interactive Rubik's Cube Modeling

Objective

• Model an interactive 3x3 Rubik’s cube based on OpenGL

• Every face of the Rubik’s Cube can rotate 90 degrees either clock wise or counter clock wise. Rotations are associate with keyboard keys.

• Users can manually rotate the Rubik’s Cube by dragging a face

• The Rubik's Cube is able to solve itself

• Supports orthographical view

• Users can change the “stickers” of the Rubik’s Cube, which is implemented by texture mapping.

Library used

• OpenGL

Key bindings

• 1 Reset the cube

• C Snap to canonical view

• F Rotate the front face clock wise

• B Rotate the back face clock wise

• R Rotate the right face clock wise

• L Rotate the left face clock wise

• U Rotate the up face clock wise

• D Rotate the down face clock wise

• SHIFT+F Rotate the front face counter clock wise

• SHIFT+B Rotate the back face counter clock wise

• SHIFT+R Rotate the right face counter clock wise

• SHIFT+L Rotate the left face counter clock wise

• SHIFT+U Rotate the up face counter clock wise

• SHIFT+D Rotate the down face counter clock wise

• SPACE Solve the cube

Results