Tips on making a Rubik's cube?

Hi all, I'm making a program that solves a rubik's cube for my final project in my first year AP Java class. However, I'm completely new to Java 3D but I've been working my way through Sun's getting started tutorial. However, I still don't have an idea of how to make thirty different colored cubes. (I'd love to just use the color cube but I understand that that can't be re-colored(correct?)) Any tips on how to get this done would be awesome. Thanks!

Thanks guys. I had read chapter one of Sun's getting tutorial but I skipped ahead to chapter two and checked out the box class. After some research on the Java3D API I found that you can colour each side of a box a different color. I just extended the box, made a few new methods of my own and it's perfect. However, now I have another problem that would probably be best in another thread.

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