Slice moves recognition

[tussosedan]

Please add slice M/E/S moves recognition (currently it's R L' or similar). Perhaps using a short time threshold e.g. 30ms to differentiate between slices and simultaneous moves.

[tussosedan]

@hakatashi do you think you will implement this? This would be a huge thing for Roux solvers, and I know many are waiting for this before buying the giiker.

[hakatashi]

Not soon. I don't conceived the proper way to detect and handle slice moves yet.

I prioritized this task because of your comment, but still no real roadmap is here.

Pull requests and suggestion are welcomed.

Note:

1. Detection: I don't prefer depending on times to detect slice moves. Adjusting threshold is annoying and inconsistent. Maybe I will implement slice moves detection in non-time-dependent ways. (e.g. treat all R L' moves as M move)
2. Handle: Technically M move is equivalent to x' R L', which includes whole cube reorientation. The current codebase cannot handle reorientation of cubes between moves and I'm still struggling to find how to implement this.

[tussosedan]

allisio on reddit uses 30ms as a threshold, and it seems to work great! Here's an example (slices shown around the middle of the video):
https://streamable.com/xbprq

About handling the implementation, hmm, if you can reorient before the first move, then I think you can do the same in the middle, treating the rest of the solve kinda like a new solve? If it's helpful, maybe keep both the original move recognition and the one that keeps being rotated. Sorry I can't write the code, I know nothing about web development.

[tussosedan]

@hakatashi I wrote some Python code that takes a given reconstruction and changes all R L' etc. to slice moves. It also optionally translates L moves to r wide moves, and can rotate the whole reconstruction as well.

It's not nearly optimal, but it works great! While it's still a work in progress and I'll add some more stuff to it, I wanted to share it with you in case it can give you ideas or maybe even the code can help.

Here's the code:
https://eval.in/1055757

[tussosedan]

@hakatashi gentle reminder :)