Here we are in this little flutter of complexity. We don't know what came before, or what comes after. But today there is version 0.6 of the Reconstruct tool.
- Removed spacebar requirement
- Added setting to change the color scheme of the cube
- Added about 700 F2L algs
- Website loads twice as fast
- Alg suggestion improvements
> Auto Text Substitutions
This update should be called the Teri Update. As a result of a conversation we had, you can now do the following:
- Typing "UD" and pressing space creates "(U D) "
- Typing two moves like "RF" creates "R F"
- Typing a wide move like "Uw" creates "u"
- Typing repeated moves like "RR" creates "R2"
I lied about the whole "not needing spacebar" thing.
The (U D) substitution is great for conveying you did both moves at the same time. The other substitutions I view mostly as an autocorrect, but you can use them heavily if you wish.
> More F2L algs
Another Teri talk yielded more algs. She noted how a lot of algs on the site do not have their "y2" form. For example, applying "y2" to R U R' gives L U L'. So I updated my scripting to apply y2 12 all F2L algs that have just <RU> and <LU> moves. This added about 700 new algs, but honestly I lost count and I can't be asked to check.
> Colorblind Support
A conversation with someone with colorblindness helped remind me that colorblind people exist.
Find this button at the top of the page to change the cube colors.
You might enjoy playing around with this feature even if you're not colorblind. But don't. The colors on the site are perfect how they are, thank you very much.
> Page go zoom
I threw a bunch of optimizations at the wall to see what stuck. Mostly this meant trying to make the server (Amazon Web Services) render as much of the site as possible ahead of time, rather than your browser having to do it. The end result is that the Recon page loads in about half the time when you first open it.
> Better suggestions
As a result of the work done for Reconstruct v0.4, I was able to improve the algorithm suggestion system a bit. You now will get less awful suggestions. For example, if get the suggestion "R U R'" now, you won't also get the suggestion "R U R' L U L'" for no reason.
I basically run a check to see if shorter versions of the alg will solve the same pieces. The work also loosely supports the possibility of multislot suggestions in the future, which you might see today occasionally if you're lucky.
