The Arcus Applet

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The Applet

This is the applet version of the Arcus Rubik's Cube Simulator. It features 3D display of a cube which can be rotated and manipulated using the mouse (see the section 2.2.1 Rotation in the manual).

The Arcus Applet requires at least JRE 1.3 to run.

Embedding

This is a minimal html page embedding the Arcus Applet.

<html>
<body>

<object
    codetype="application/java"
    classid="java:arcusapplet/MainFrame.class"
    code="arcusapplet/MainFrame.class"
    archive="arcus-applet.jar" 
    width="486"
    height="407">
<param name="D" value="#e6e600">
<param name="F" value="#008000">
<param name="R" value="#800000">
<param name="B" value="#000080">
<param name="L" value="#ff8000">
<param name="U" value="#e6e6e6">
<param name="LIGHT" value="0.5">
<param name="SCRAMBLE" value="10">
<param name="ANIMSTEPS" value="15">
<param name="ANIMTIME" value="500">

<p>
Arcus Applet could not be loaded. It is likely that either Java is
disabled in your browser or you don't have a Java Runtime Environment
(JRE). <a href="http://java.com/en/download/">Grab it.</a>
</p>

</object>

</body>
</html>

Accepted Parameters

Parameter names must be in uppercase. All parameters are optional.

Name Format Description
F|B|R|L|U|D #rrggbb Specifies the RGB color of the Front, Back, Right, Left, Up or Down sides. The values must be hexadecimal numbers prefixed by a hashmark.
LIGHT double [0.0-1.0] The type of light; 0 means sharp, 1 means diffuse.
SCRAMBLE integer [1-100] Number of steps to scramble the cube.
ANIMSTEPS integer [1-90] Number of animation steps.
ANIMTIME integer [0-5000] Time of a quarter turn in ms.

Name	Format	Description
`F\|B\|R\|L\|U\|D`	`#rrggbb`	Specifies the RGB color of the Front, Back, Right, Left, Up or Down sides. The values must be hexadecimal numbers prefixed by a hashmark.
`LIGHT`	`double [0.0-1.0]`	The type of light; 0 means sharp, 1 means diffuse.
`SCRAMBLE`	`integer [1-100]`	Number of steps to scramble the cube.
`ANIMSTEPS`	`integer [1-90]`	Number of animation steps.
`ANIMTIME`	`integer [0-5000]`	Time of a quarter turn in ms.

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