Rubik's Cube · qwen3.8-max
Using the pre-provided three.min.js (global THREE), render an interactive 3D Rubik's Cube with clickable face rotations, orbit-drag camera, and a scramble button.
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Using the pre-provided three.min.js (global THREE), render an interactive 3D Rubik's Cube with clickable face rotations, orbit-drag camera, and a scramble button.
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Build a Rubik's cube using Three.js in a single index.html. 27 cubies, raycasting for click operations — clicking a face rotates that layer? "Clickable face rotation" — clicking a face rotates that layer. Let me design it: click on a cubie's face → identify axis/layer based on click position and normal, rotate that face 90°. Simpler: click to rotate the face that contains that sticker... ambiguity: clicking the top face of a cubie could mean either U or... Common approach: clicking the front-facing side rotates that face clockwise. To disambiguate, use the face normal and position to determine which of the 6 face rotations it is: layer = based on the cubie's position along the normal axis being at the outer edge, rotation axis = normal. Only clicks on the outermost stickers trigger a face rotation. This is clean: click a sticker on the U layer (y=1 with normal +y) → U rotation. Direction: clockwise by default; Shift+click for counterclockwise, maybe. Animation: rotate the group of 9 cubies 90° over time, then snap and update logical positions. Camera: homebrew orbit drag (mouse drag rotates spherical coords), wheel to zoom. Scramble button: queue of about 20 random moves, fast animation. Implementation details: - Cubies: 27 meshes (rounded box or BoxGeometry with a black material + sticker planes). Simpler: BoxGeometry with multi-material, only outer faces colored. Use per-cubie materials: for each of the 6 faces, if outer, sticker color, otherwise black. - Logical state: track cubie's position with mesh.position, rounded values. - Rotation: pick axis and layer index (-1,0,1), create a THREE.Group, attach cubies to the group (preserve world transform), animate the group's rotation, then bake: update world matrix, detach cubies back to scene, round positions, snap quaternion. Attach/detach: use scene.attach / group.attach. THREE r? The version of three.min.js is unknown; attach exists since r84+. To be safe I could implement a manual attach helper. Let me check the version. Click detection: raycaster on pointerdown (not on drag). Distinguish click from drag: record position on pointerdown, and if pointerup is within a small movement threshold → click. Direction of rotation: clockwise when looking at the face from outside. Sign of rotation angle: for a +y face, clockwise viewed from +y is a negative angle around the +y axis (rotation -90°). For normal n, clockwise = -90° around axis n. Shift+click → +90. Animation queue: moves are processed sequentially. Disable clicks during animation? Allow queuing. Also add a reset button (probably). Keep the code robust. Let me write it. Snap after rotation: for each cubie in the group, after animating the group's rotation to target, scene.attach(cubie), round position, snap quaternion components to nearest 90°? Rounding quaternion: build rotation from rounded euler? Simpler: keep cubie.userData.quaternion exact: track logical orientation by accumulating. Actually, snapping the quaternion: round each component? Risky. Better: after detach, compute rounded euler angles → but euler composition order is an issue. Common trick: since all rotations are multiples of 90°, round the elements of the rotation matrix to nearest integers and set quaternion from that matrix. This works. Animation loop with a requestAnimationFrame queue of moves. Camera orbit: spherical coords, drag rotates, wheel zoom clamps radius. Add hover highlight? Optional, skip or keep simple. Scramble: 25 random moves, fast animation (100ms each). Let me write the code. Check availability of attach in three.min.js — quick grep. Let me peek at the file headers.
{"command":"ls -la /tmp/ws && head -c 300 /tmp/ws/three.min.js"}total 592 drwxr-sr-x. 2 node node 26 Aug 3 23:53 . drwxrwsrwx. 3 root node 16 Aug 3 23:53 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 node node 603445 Aug 3 23:53 three.min.js /** * @license * Copyright 2010-2021 Three.js Authors * SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */ !function(t,e){"object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typeof module?e(exports):"function"==typeof define&&define.amd?define(["exports"],e):e((t="undefined"!=typeof globalThis?globalThis:t||self).THREE={})}(th
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Modern Three.js (the 2021 ones, probably around r128 or so). Attach/detach are available. Let's write index.html.
Three.js is present. Now I'll write the self-contained app:
/tmp/ws/index.html (12196 bytes)Successfully wrote 12196 bytes to /tmp/ws/index.html
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Let me do a quick sanity check for syntax errors. Can I run node against the inline script? Node doesn't have THREE DOM. At the very least I can validate the JS syntax with node --check against the extracted script. Let's give that a try.
Let me verify the JS syntax and that three.min.js loads correctly:
{"command":"cd /tmp/ws && python3 - <<'EOF'\nimport re\nhtml = open('index.html').read()\nm = re.search(r'<script>\\n(.*?)</script>', html, /bin/bash: line 1: python3: command not found node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1520 throw err; ^ Error: Cannot find module '/tmp/app.js' at node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1517:15 at node:internal/main/check_syntax:33:20 { code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND', requireStack: [] } Node.js v24.18.1 [eval]:7 console.log('THREE revision:', global.THREE.REVISION); ^ TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'REVISION') at [eval]:7:45 at runScriptInThisContext (node:internal/vm:219:10) at node:internal/process/execution:451:12 at [eval]-wrapper:6:24 at runScriptInContext (node:internal/process/execution:449:60) at evalFunction (node:internal/process/execution:283:30) at evalTypeScript (node:internal/process/execution:295:3) at node:internal/main/eval_string:71:3 Node.js v24.18.1 Command exited with code 1
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No python3. Use node to extract it. Also, the three.js UMD probably needs `this`/globalThis — the stub sets global.self, but UMD uses `typeof globalThis !== "undefined" ? globalThis : this` → globalThis exists, so THREE gets attached to globalThis. But in the -e eval, `global.THREE` is undefined? In CJS, `require` of a UMD with an exports check: "object"==typeof exports && "undefined"!=typeof module → writes into exports, not globalThis! In other words, it exports as a module. Use the return value of require.
{"command":"cd /tmp/ws && node -e \"\nconst fs=require('fs');\nconst html=fs.readFileSync('index.html','utf8');\nconst m=html.match(/<scriptinline JS syntax OK THREE revision: 128 Group.attach works, EdgesGeometry: function | MeshLambertMaterial: function
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Everything looks fine. r128 supports attach/detach, Raycaster, and MeshLambertMaterial. One thing to confirm: `snapCubie` rounds the matrix elements, then does setFromRotationMatrix — the matrix has position baked in as well, but setFromRotationMatrix ignores translation. OK. Another check: inside snapCubie, we call c.updateMatrix() — the matrix is composed from position/quaternion/scale, and rounding the translation to STEP units is fine. Also `hits = raycaster.intersectObjects(cubies, false)` — cubies are children of cubeRoot. Does the raycaster handle the world matrix via object.matrixWorld? intersectObject uses the object's matrixWorld, which gets updated during rendering. No problem. Done. Time to wrap up.
Everything checks out — syntax is valid, and the local Three.js r128 supports all APIs used (`Group.attach`, `EdgesGeometry`, raycasting). The app is complete. **`/tmp/ws/index.html`** — a fully self-contained Rubik's Cube: **Features** - **27 cubies** built from `BoxGeometry` with per-face `MeshLambertMaterial` (standard colors: red/orange/white/yellow/green/blue on outer faces, black plastic inside) plus black edge lines for the classic look. - **Clickable face rotations**: raycast picks the clicked sticker; its world-space normal determines the axis, and the click only works on *outermost* stickers (cursor becomes a pointer on hover). Click = clockwise quarter-turn of that face, **Shift+click = counter-clockwise**. Moves animate smoothly at 90°/260ms and are snapped to exact grid positions/orientations after each turn (matrix-rounding prevents drift). - **Orbit camera**: custom drag-to-orbit (spherical coords) with pointer capture, a 5px threshold so clicks and drags don't conflict, and mouse-wheel zoom with clamped radius. - **🔀 Scramble button**: queues 22 fast random outer-layer moves through the same sequential move queue, so scramble moves and user clicks interleave safely. - **↺ Reset button**: rebuilds the cube instantly (clears the queue mid-animation safely). - Lighting (ambient + two directionals), resize handling, `devicePixelRatio` capping, and a small glassmorphic HUD with instructions and pending-move counter. No external resources — only the local `three.min.js` via a plain `<script src>`.
TAKE IT TO CODE
A single self-contained HTML file — copy it and open in any browser, or reuse the prompt with your own pi-agent run.
RUN
EVALUATION
3D Rubik's cube responds to click (face rotate), drag and wheel (orbit/zoom), but ignores keyboard input.
Vision grade · anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
MEASUREMENTS
Raw readings from the capture, not a verdict — the grade above is the only judgement. Percentages are how much of the screen changed; the measure under-reports sparse motion on a dark background.