Solving 32-disc Hanoi Tower stack puzzle! (136 Years @ 1 Move/Second)

A computer generated animated film on solving 32-disc Hanoi Tower puzzle. Over 4 billion moves to move the entire disc stack from left peg to right peg. At move rate of 1 disc per second, solving the puzzle takes 49710 days (over 136 years or over 1 century). The clock at upper right corner telling the elapsed time (in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years and centuries) since the puzzle started at midnight of the first day of the first month of the first year. (Note: first 15 seconds of movie is frozen to allow you to get familiar what is shown in the scene)

Rules of Hanoi Tower puzzle:

The Tower of Hanoi is a mathematical game or puzzle consisting of three rods and a number of discs of various diameters, which can slide onto any rod. The puzzle begins with the discs stacked on one rod in order of decreasing size, the smallest at the top, thus approximating a conical shape. The objective of the puzzle is to move the entire stack to the last rod, obeying the following rules:

--- Only one disc can be moved at a time.
--- Each move consists of taking the upper disc from one of the stacks and placing it on top of another stack or on an empty rod.
--- No bigger disc can be placed on top of a smaller disc.

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[lienpham]

At 2:52, is took a time to do 1 disc lol 😂

[yannck]

Thanks for the tutorial. Got stuck halfway through on my last attempt :/

[gswcooper]

This is a pretty awesome animation! ^^ I wonder if you'll keep going until you're able to animate the full 64-disc version of this puzzle? ;D
(I have a 32-disc tower of my very own, of course it could never be solved but it looks absolutely beautiful ^^)

I remembered your videos and decided to look you up again, it's been a couple of years. :)

[pmkbadua]

This takes a whole lifetime to finish and half a lifetime just to move the largest disc.

[nayutaito]

One more move and 32 bit counter overflows

[buter_s_kolbasoy]

Speed 43m x you can watch whole story of humanity in 50 seconds

[chamberkingston]

What this is saying is the guy that started this puzzle would not see the day it is finished, assuming he never takes a break from it since birth...