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Same 2 Turns on a Smiley Cube, Over and Over. Does the Smile Ever Come Back?
About this piece
A cube with a smiley on the front. Spin the front, turn the top, and repeat exactly that. After 7 repeats 4 edge tiles are home. After 15, the corners. After 105 the smile is back, but the eyes are sideways.
The middle tile turns a quarter with every repeat, so the picture needs 4 times as long: 420 repeats. No routine on a color cube loops longer than 1,260, out of 43 quintillion patterns. Then 144 cubes do it together.
Chapters
How it is computed
- Seed
- 20261113
- Frames
- 11,160
- Frames per second
- 60
- Picture
- 1920 × 1080
- Renderer
- film3d / WebGPU
- GPU
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Computed on this device, right now. Same seed, same frames.
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