Mindgames

This painting is a beautiful story about challenging mind games. Like the Rubik’s cubes can be a great challenge for the enthusiast, such as that after a lot of practice from every position with 26 turns are solved. And that was calculated by computer scientists from Boston University in America. But now a nice question for you, in this painting the Turn 4 mirrored cubes onto 1 light purple surface. That is possible with all cubes and Now, for example, take the cube at the top left and can you see how many rotations are required? Like that is simple and later in this story you can read what is good.

By the way, solving the entire cube is possible very quickly. The American Lucas Etter has previously proven this. On November 21, 2015, he set the record with 4.9 seconds during the world cube turning championships. Like it was at the River Hill Fall Competition. I’ll give you the solution for the number of rotations of the cubes in this painting. This can be done in 3.5 turns, for example first take the cube at the top left. And then turn the top light purple left disk one quarter turn inwards, and then turn the middle light purple disk one turn up. Then turn the bottom light purple disk at the back right one turn inward and then turn the light purple disk at the top back one turn. Then the Rubik’s cube has now been turned onto 1 light purple surface and in this simple way it makes the world more beautiful for everyone. And it is not necessary to put the whole cube on it to solve.

Chris-Jan van der Boom – Dutch artist and writer