Supporting documents relating to cube design features, cube solving and some cube mathematics (mainly relating to the number of reachable cube states), are available external to the Unravel program. A list of the supporting documents, and what they provide, is given below. All documents are available at the developer's website (http://www.kenblackbox.com).
Document | Detail |
cubesolving.pdf | This document provides detailed instructions on how to solve cubes of any size using the Unravel or any other program. It represents an extension of the help that is available on-line. |
markedcubesolving.pdf | This document provides details of the software cube design techniques for, and instructions for solving, the more complex cubes with marked centres. The instructions in this document are limited to ones that are additional to those provided in the previous document. It represents an extension of the help that is available on-line. |
cubestates.pdf | This document provides a derivation of the number of possible states for cubes of any size, together with numerical data and graphs. Be assured that the mathematics contained therein has nothing to do with solving the cube. |
cubecalc.xls | This document provides the number crunching and graph generation in support of the cubestates.pdf document. |
cuberules.pdf | This document presents and justifies rules which in most cases need to be expressed as functions of cube size. The attributes considered are mostly mathematical in nature. Particular emphasis is given to parity and the number of unreachable states for cubes of any size. | cubereview.htm | This document attempts to review the status of Rubik's family cubes around the year 2010. | cubereview.zip | This single zip file contains the cubereview.htm document together with associated images and directories to allow viewing when the file is saved off-line. |