Freecube

⚛Crafted toolkit for Rubik's Cube

Freecube renders and animates Rubik's Cube with raw WebGL, plus a tiny rule-based solver showing how CFOP works.

Usage

npm install freecube

import { Cube, Solver } from 'freecube'

const canvas = document.querySelector('#gl')
const cube = new Cube(canvas)
const solver = new Solver(cube)

cube.render(30, -45) // Render the cube with X and Y rotation.
cube.shuffle(20, true) // Shuffle it with animation.
solver.solve() // Generate solution with CFOP algorithm.

API

Cube

new Cube(canvas: CanvasElement, moves: Moves)

Main class emulating Rubik's Cube, it maintains cube state in this.blocks and optional WebGL instance in this.gl.

• canvas - DOM canvas element for rendering, can be null for "headless" case.
• moves - Array of cube moves, .e.g., ['R', 'U', 'F'].

animate

(move: String|Moves, duration: number) => Promise

Animate the cube moves with single or multi move, uses cube.move under the hood. you can set move speed with optional durataion args. The promise returned will be resolved on animation ends.

getBlock

(coord: Coord) => Block

Get block data in the cube. coord shapes as [0, 1, -1] and the block returns in { positions: Array, colors: Array } format. block.positions is the vertex positions of the block, and block.colors represents block colors in [F, B, U, D, R, L] sequence.

move

(move: String|Moves) => Cube

Update cube state with moves passed in, uses cube.rotate under the hood. Just use it as animate without animation. Chain calling like cube.move('U').move('R') is supported.

Only F / B / L / R / U / D and their counter moves can be used for now. "Advanced" turns like M / r / x / R2 are not supported.

rotate

(center: Coord, clockwise: boolean) => Cube

Rotate cube face in 90 degree. center coord is the center block of the face, clockwise for rotate direction.

render

(rX: number, rY: number, moveFace: String, moveAngle: number)

Renders the cube with rX and rY as overall rotation, and moveFace and moveAngle for a cube face rotation.

shuffle

(n: number, animate: false) => Cube|Promise

Shuffles the cube. Returns cube instance if animation not used, and promise on shuffle animation ends.

Solver

Rule-based module solving Rubik's Cube with CFOP algorithm.

solve

() => Array<Moves>

Solve the cube state with all CFOP steps. Returns array of 4 series of moves.

solveCross

() => Moves

Returns the moves to build a cross.

solveF2L

() => Moves

Returns the moves to build first two layers.

solveOLL

() => Moves

Returns the moves to pass OLL.

solvePLL

() => Moves

Returns the moves to pass PLL.

License

MIT