cubzzle

This is a toy project implementing a brute force solver for a small wooden puzzle that I use to have at home.

What's the puzzle ?

There are 6 wooden pieces made of small cubes that can fit into a 3x3x3 box.

What does the solver do ?

The solver finds a solution and displays it in a Graphics window.

So that one can see exactly how the pieces fit, the display allows for inspecting pieces individually.

Other shapes

You can assemble the same pieces into other shapes as well, such as a Dog:

or a Tower, etc.

Install

Releases for this project are published to a custom opam-repo. To add it to your current opam switch, run:

opam repo add mbarbin https://github.com/mbarbin/opam-repository.git

Then you can install cubzzle using a normal opam workflow.

opam install cubzzle

Running the code

The following command will open an OCaml Graphics window and run the solver:

$ cubzzle run

A few shapes are available (Cube, Dog, Tower, etc.). To solve a different shape, provide the option --shape. You can also draw the box during the brute force search, to see the solver run through all permutations interactively.

$ cubzzle run --shape=Tower --draw-box-during-search=true

Motivations

I wanted to have a small code sample using OCaml Graphics on GitHub.

Code Documentation

The code documentation of the latest release is built with odoc and published to GitHub pages here.