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> What's next? Finding a needle in a haystack? I’m working on a jigsaw puzzle and hit a bit of a dry spell and was hoping there might be an app that could hel
by memco 4y ago
> What's next? Finding a needle in a haystack?
I’m working on a jigsaw puzzle and hit a bit of a dry spell and was hoping there might be an app that could help find the pieces in a pile and where they go. Nothing exists yet that I could see. I imagine with a completed picture and a view of a piece it would be possible to show where in the picture the piece goes to reduce the burden. Extra pints if you can give it a view of the current progress and it could show you where the pieces should go.
- space_fountain 4y agoI’ve had the same thought. I think the tough bit is getting a clean image of all the pieces. Without controlling the background and lighting it would be quite tough
- thaunatos 4y agoKind of similar, a guy making a robot to solve jigsaw puzzles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu_1S77XkiM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu_1S77XkiM
- justinlloyd 4y agoCombined downloads for my Scrabble game solver (take a picture of the scrabble board, take a picture of your rack of tiles, play the optimal word) and my jigsaw puzzle solver (finding a needle in a haystack) totalled up to less than the fingers on the hands of a bad Youtube woodworker practicing every unsafe operation with a table saw whilst being inanttentive. After two years, back in 2013-ish, I removed the apps from the app store.
- jimmySixDOF 4y agoMaybe time to dust that off and try again I'll bet more recent phones make those apps shine
- memco 4y agoSorry those didn’t pan out! I’m not sure I would actually pay for such an app since I only do jigsaw puzzles every few years. But it is fun to know it has been done and could be done again.