05 februari 2004

Biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world

How's this for an Internet application? Take a image picture (.jpg or something), cut it in pieces using an editing program. Write yourself a web application that displays a grid and a tray that shows (some of) the smaller pieces. Let people try to put the pieces in the right place. You might recognize this as a jigsaw puzzle.

There are several implementations on the Internet that allow you to solve a jigsaw puzzle. JigZone is an example. It's all single player and most of them are Java applets, though.

What I came up with after a talk with Eric van Bakel and Jeroen van den Berg is building such a jigsaw puzzle as a large multi-user application. Take a quite large image and cut it into a 1000 pieces. Everybody can work on this puzzle and try to solve it together. Once the one with 1000 pieces is finished, have one that has 5000 pieces, then 10.000, 25.000, and so on. If a lot of people work on it, every single one should be solvable.

Questions:

  • Is my idea unique, or has somebody else already thought of this (and maybe even implemented it)?
  • What do you guess is the number of pieces of the largest jigsaw puzzle that would be solved in this way?

When I get around to finishing the initial release of Killer-Blog, I'll start working on it (I think).

Comments

# B@@ said:

I think i will build then an automatic Content Based Jigsaw Image Retrievel Artificial Space Locator Solver (CBJIRASLS c)2004) which connects via 1000 sockets at the time, hacks your pathetic "type these numbers for preventing fraud" protection (gnagna by the using the automatic content based number images protection scheme recognizer ACNBIPS c)2004 ), and solves each puzzle with enough latency for you to think it is actually real humans (based on the international phone book spam cd) who have enough free time to actually play puzzles next to their 100 hours a week working weeks .... while connecting from hacked pc's all over the world which are infected by the jigsaw virus .... LOL

vrijdag 27 februari 2004 0:38