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Hanoi

And there you have it - my first zero portals 'puzzle'. A map dedicated to my friend Joric.
Back in February, he published a map which was a remake of the second room of this map.[forums.thinking.withportals.com]
Using his words, possibly quoting yet someone else: ''Room 2 is one of the best implementations of the Towers of Hanoi I've seen in any game, Portal or otherwise''.
Sadly, I couldn't even see the connection between that room and the Towers of Hanoi. But still the idea lingered. If that was one of the best implementations, and I couldn't even see why, surely I would be able to do it even better.
I thought about this on and off for a long time, but I couldn't find an elegant way to recreate this classic puzzle in Portal. This morning on the train I had a brainwave and it was so simple that I hit myself on the head for not seeing it sooner.
Therefore I proudly present you:
The Towers of Hanoi... in Portal 2.

I hope that you guys like it - at least, I'm really glad with the way this turned out.
I've just been thinking of this game much too abstractly lately, as a real pedantic mathematician should. But don't worry - after this I will be back to making regular maps again (probably :p).
Difficulty: 3/10.
Optional companion cube is obtainable - that's also a first.

Final note: the number of cube movements increases even more rapidly than in the original problem. Namely, for N cubes, the solution to this variant of the towers of Hanoi requires 2*3^(N-1)-1 cube movements, which greatly exceeds 2^N - 1, which is the answer for the classic version of the puzzle. Contrary to the result in my map Theorem, in which the complexity of the puzzle could only increase quadratically with the number of cubes, this time it grows exponentially. That's pretty bad.

Of course I won't copystrike you for the music if you record your run :p
In other news: My puzzle game Sokoban: The RPG has been released on steam! Please consider checking it out!

Playthrough by 可砸的六度双音
Blind run by asears16