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Users can play with the doodle version of the Rubik's Cube on Google's homepage today. Screengrab: WIRED

 

How Google Built Its 3-D Interactive Rubik’s Cube Doodle



 



From:   http://www.wired.com


 

Google launched one of its coolest doodles yet: a 3-D interactive Rubik’s Cube.

Built thanks to advances in CSS and a few smart design tricks, it’s one of the most challenging doodles the company has done so far. It’s also one of the most well-timed. May 19—5/19—honors the roughly 519 quintillion possible configurations of the iconic puzzle.

In the 14 years since Google began posting them, doodles have celebrated everything from cultural milestones to significant inventions. Two years ago music lovers went nuts when the company posted a fully-playable Moog doodle, and in 2010 videogame fans got a chance to enjoy a round of Pac-Man on the Google homepage to celebrate the game’s 30th anniversary.
 

Link:  http://www.wired.com/2014/05/google-doodle-rubiks-cube/


 

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In addition to the main doodle, Google is also making the source code available for anyone interested in remixing it. The company is also launching a handful of interactive, digital Rubik’s Cubes as a Chrome Experiment, as well as partnering with Liberty Science Center for a live interactive exhibit on the Cube, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
 

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