Home Screenshots Applet Download Manual
	Welcome to Arcus - A Rubik's Cube Simulator

Introduction

Arcus is a Rubik's Cube Simulator written in Java. Due to Java technology, it can run on a wide range of platforms, including UNIX/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and many others. Arcus – which is a standalone Java application – has an applet version called Arcus Applet, that can be embedded in a html page providing a nice viewport of a Rubik's Cube.

The main features of Arcus are

• 3D display of the cube, including animated rotations and layer turns.
• Besides solving the cube (that is, from any pattern getting to the state with one color on each side), Arcus is able to get from any pattern to any other goal pattern, which is a more general task.
• 3D Pattern Editor to specify the goal pattern.
• Pattern Store to gather and store pretty patterns.
• Keeping track of each turn, allowing the user to bidirectionally walk through the cube's history.
• Easily configurable Look and Feel, colors, mouse behaviour, etc. Most of the changes take effect immediately.

Translations

Supported languages:

	English	default
	Hungarian	Peter Szilagyi	<petersfsck spammerszilagyi at users dot sourceclick hereforge dot net>
	Russian	Evgeniy Potanin	<buefsck spammersnas at users dot sourceclick hereforge dot net>

New translations are welcome.

Requirements

Arcus requires at least Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 to run. If you want to compile the source code, you will need Java Standard Development Kit (JDK) 5.0. See the download page for more information about getting Java.

License

Arcus is Copyright © 2005-2007 by Peter Szilagyi <peterszifsck spammerslagyi at users dot sourceclick hereforge dot net>

Arcus is released under the GNU General Public License.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

	Hosted by