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Offline orgo814

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Rubik cube symmetry
« on: September 13, 2015, 01:03:00 PM »
Trying to determine symmetry elements of a Rubik's cube (ignoring color). Are they a C4 axis, perpendicular C2 axes, and sigma H? And inversion center and E?

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Re: Rubik cube symmetry
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2015, 01:16:36 PM »
If you ignore color, isn't this a regular old cube?
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Re: Rubik cube symmetry
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2015, 01:38:39 PM »
It's 3x3 cube. Would that change anything?
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Re: Rubik cube symmetry
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2015, 02:09:07 PM »
Solved Rubik's cube, or a scrambled one?
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Re: Rubik cube symmetry
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2015, 04:08:11 PM »
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Re: Rubik cube symmetry
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2015, 06:23:52 PM »
Makes no difference if you're ignoring colour. Indeed, paradoxically, it still makes no difference even if you consider colour, because a solved Rubik's cube has no symmetry elements other than E.
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Re: Rubik cube symmetry
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2015, 09:29:16 PM »
I'm not sure how that would be true. If we are considering this just as a cube it has quite a lot of symmetry axes.
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Re: Rubik cube symmetry
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2015, 06:07:47 AM »
Ignoring colours means a normal one-color cube?
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