Demonstration app of a Rubiks cube solver. The home page presents a graphical 3-D cube in default solved configuration. The 2 lines of movement buttons below the cube UDLRFBMSE, and so on, allow you to move the cube's slices or (in the case of XYZ) rotate the entire cube.

Lowercase letters indicate clockwise movement; uppercase letters indicate counterclockwise movement.

The slice names are as follows:

• u Up
• d Down
• l Left
• r Right
• f Front
• b Back
• m middle (between Left and Right)
• s middle (between Front and Back)
• e middle (between Up and Down)

The six buttons below allow the following functions:

• Load Default Cube Loads the default solved configuration, overwriting the currently displayed cube.

• Save Cube Saves the currently displayed cube on the server

• Restore Cube Restores the server-saved cube, overwriting the currently displayed cube.

• Normalize Cube Rotates the entire cube to the normalized position. Note that the center cubes on each face never change their relative orientation to one another. Normlized position is:

  -- Up (Yellow), Down (White), Left (Blue), Right (Green), Front (Red), Back (Orange)

• Randomize Creates a "randomized" set of moves to scramble the cube. The list is displayed just below in the "Move List"

• Solve Calculates a set of moves to solve a scrambled cube and displays it in the "Move List." Note: a cube must be in the Normalized position to be solved.

The Move List displays the moves calculated by the Randomize and Solve functions. You can play the entire list in sequence or single-step through them.

These six input boxes allow you to type in a specific cube configuration, for example, to allow you to solve a physical cube in scrambled position. First, note the cube's original orientation. Then, starting with Up face and using moves along one dimension only, rotate the entire cube so the Up face becomes the Front face (this would use a X move in the terminology above). Describe the nine cubies of the (now Front) face using the first letters of their colors, moving first left to right and then up to down.

So the three visible faces of this cube would be described as follows:

• Up: ogooyoogo
• Front: grgyrygrg
• Right: wwwgggwww

Omelyan's codepen page inspired some of the html, css, and js code to draw and animate the cube.

The rubik's solver code is Copyright (c) 2017 by Victor Cabezas and is used pursuant to the MIT License. See this github page. It uses (among others) the Kociemba method.