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A software model of the 4-layer Master Pyraminx twisty puzzle. An automated solver using the A* algorithm is also provided. Originally created for CS463G at the University of Kentucky in September 2020. Repository made public in October 2020.

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Quickstart:

git clone [email protected]:irowebbn/pyraminx.git
cd pyraminx
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -S .. -B . # You can also specify a specific build generator with `-G` option
cmake --build . --config Release  # You can also run your specified build tool directly, e.g. `make` or `ninja`

Currently, there are two executables build under examples/cli and examples/autosolve.

The pyraminx-cli executable is a interactive puzzle which takes move inputs and simpy prints an unfolded view of the puzzle to the terminal. This allows the user to see the state of the puzzle after each step. The terminal to which output is written must support ANSI color codes. To check if your terminal supports this, run tput colors. The value returned should be at least 8 for the coloring to work. If you see garbage characters printed to the output, your terminal probably doesn't support this.

The pyraminx-autosolve executable will solve consecutive instances of scrambled puzzles, starting with 3 scrambling moves and working up to 20 scrambling moves. You can edit these parameters in examples/autosolve/autosolve.cpp. Future work will allow this to be set at runtime. The algorithm used is optimal, but currently runs out of memory for deeply scrambled cubes. Future work will attempt to improve this performance.

For the description of how the Pyraminx model was implemented, see docs/README_Assignment1_Model.md. For the description on how the A* heuristic-informed search solver works, see docs/README_Assignment2_AStar.md

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A software model of the 4-layer Master Pyraminx twisty puzzle. An automated solver using the A* algorithm is also provided. Originally created for CS463G at the University of Kentucky in September 2020. Repository made public in October 2020.

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