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Creating personalized jigsaw puzzles

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Yuliy Schwartzburg,

Zahra Sadeghipoor,

Sabine SüsstrunkAuthors Info & Claims

NPAR '14: Proceedings of the Workshop on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering

Pages 31 - 39

https://doi.org/10.1145/2630397.2630405

Published: 08 August 2014 Publication History

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Designing aesthetically pleasing and challenging jigsaw puzzles is considered an art that requires considerable skill and expertise. We propose a tool that allows novice users to create customized jigsaw puzzles based on the image content and a user-defined curve. A popular design choice among puzzle makers, called color line cutting, is to cut the puzzle along the main contours in an image, making the puzzle both aesthetically interesting and challenging to solve. At the same time, the puzzle maker has to make sure that puzzle pieces interlock so that they do not disassemble easily.

Our method automatically optimizes for puzzle cuts that follow the main contours in the image and match the user-defined curve. We handle the tradeoff between color line cutting and interlocking, and we introduce a linear formulation for the interlocking constraint. We propose a novel method for eliminating self-intersections and ensuring a minimum width in our output curves. Our method satisfies these necessary fabrication constraints in order to make valid puzzles that can be easily realized with present-day laser cutters.

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Creating personalized jigsaw puzzles
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
2. Mathematics of computing
  1. Continuous mathematics
    1. Topology
      1. Geometric topology

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NPAR '14: Proceedings of the Workshop on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering

August 2014

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ISBN:9781450330206

DOI:10.1145/2630397

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Carleton University

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Expressive '14: The joint symposium on Computational Aesthetics and Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering

August 8 - 10, 2014

British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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Kita NMiyata K(2020)Computational design of polyomino puzzlesThe Visual Computer10.1007/s00371-020-01968-5Online publication date: 7-Sep-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-020-01968-5
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