A New Cube

Over thirty years ago, a pro­fes­sor of archi­tec­ture cre­ated a sim­ple puz­zle to teach his stu­dents to think in three dimen­sions. His name was Erno Rubik, and his inven­tion became the best-​selling toy in the world.

Now, a man named Julian Oliver has cre­ated another, slightly more high-​tech, cube puz­zle called lev­el­Head -

The game works by hold­ing the cube in a web­cam, and the game soft­ware rec­og­nizes the cube faces and draws in the “room” and the “man.” You move the man around by tilt­ing the cube, and flip it to get new angles you can manip­u­late him from. Right now, the designer has made five dif­fer­ent cubes of vary­ing dif­fi­culty, but because it was designed for Ubuntu, and will be released as open-​source soft­ware, you could poten­tially make your own cubes to play with!

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  1. Do you think this will some­day be THE GAME played in Aphio?

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