{"id":3162,"date":"2014-04-09T16:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T23:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttinvent.com\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2014-04-09T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:59:09","slug":"wonder-wednesday-the-anatomy-of-a-rubiks-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=3162","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Wednesday: The Anatomy of a Rubik\u2019s Cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Lots of people see and play with Rubik\u2019s cube everyday, but how does a Rubik\u2019s cube actually work?A Rubik\u2019s cube is a series of cubes that connect to a rotating center, a thin pole runs along each axis (x, y, and z) that connects to the center of the cube, rotating a series of six cubes, one for each face.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A Rubik\u2019s cube has twenty six cubes, and six are attached to the poles, which leaves the remaining twenty cubes to connect to each other as they rotate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3165\" alt=\"rubrik02\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubrik02-500x261.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubrik02-500x261.png 500w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubrik02-1024x536.png 1024w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubrik02-800x419.png 800w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubrik02-1200x629.png 1200w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubrik02.png 1214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When I first was curious about the Rubik\u2019s cube I wondered how twenty six cubes connected to one center in a rotatable fashion, but I now understand that \u00a0that would be difficult to do, causing several virtually impossible connections. It is much simpler to connect to each other instead. I \u00a0was also wondering how an algorithm could solve it. Of course there are algebra explanations for why it works, but it get\u2019s a little complicated when you get to that part.. A rubik\u2019s cube is still partially a mystery to me, and I still have a little ways to go before understanding it fully, but it is not quite the threatening lack of explanation that it was before.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3164\" alt=\"rubrik03\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubrik03-500x364.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubrik03-500x364.png 500w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubrik03-273x199.png 273w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubrik03.png 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1p0qN1_qWoA?rel=0\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Resource:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rubik's_Cube\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rubik&#8217;s_Cube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people see and play with Rubik\u2019s cube everyday, but how does a Rubik\u2019s cube actually work?A Rubik\u2019s cube is a series of cubes that connect to a rotating center, a thin pole runs along each axis (x, y, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=3162\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wonder Wednesday: The Anatomy of a Rubik\u2019s Cube<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":3166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[304,264],"tags":[596,305],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rubrik01.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9PzL0-P0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}