From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mon Jun 7 15:49:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id PAA24758 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:49:59 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu From: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) Subject: Re: Standard file format for Rubik's Cube is just about ready Date: 7 Jun 1999 13:48:49 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-Id: <7jgik1$d5d@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: "David Byrden" writes: >I have one question that I want to ask now. This >language needs a "default colour scheme". I >understand that one way of colouring a Rubik's >Cube was much more common than the others, >but I don't know which one. Can anyone specify it >exactly for me? The most common color scheme was White opposite Blue, Green opposite Yellow, Red opposite Orange. If you hold Yellow as Front and Red as Up, then Blue is Right. Color "purists" have complained about this, preferring White opposite Yellow, Blue opposite Green, Red opposite Orange. -- note that each pair is the same color except for some "Yellow" added. -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If all my friends jumped off a cliff... what reason is there for me to live? [Moderator's note: You say white opposite blue was common, but when was that? My experience and other reports lead me to believe that what you call the "purist" color scheme was most common in 1985 (viz _Rubik's_Cubic_Compendium_) and I don't recall seeing any change since. It also is reportedly most common in the chirality you describe, which is called the BOY version because blue, orange, and yellow appear in that order clockwise around a corner. The mirror image coloring is called YOB (a Cockney term for a yokel). I don't know of any cute naming schemes for the enantiomorphs in color schemes in which the blue, orange, and yellow faces do not all meet--Dan ]