Posted by sachuraju on Apr 21, 2013; 4:46pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Rubik-s-Cube-Help-tp4682659p4682869.html

Thank you for the reply, David. I'll go ahead and try it. I would also appreciate your inputs on the following.

It seems to me that we may be thinking at a lower level of abstraction than we ought to.

The rotation around a point is not necessarily a property of a single cube, but all the cubes in the plane in which I want the rotations to happen. So,

1) Would it be easier to define a container class, (such as a subclass of TGroup), that can contain cubes and have rotation as a property of the container class itself? This way, we don't have to worry about single-cube rotations.

2) If we do implement such a container class, we'll need to make such a container class dynamic since after a rotation, the cubes shift their positions. So if I do a rotation around y-axis, then the cubes would change their planes in the x-axis and z-axis.

Would it be any easier, given the classes in croquet, than my previous approach?