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Computer-Aided Lego Art Project

Posted by timothy on from the how-they-made-naughty-pictures-at-vesuvius dept.

rsk writes "Justin Voskuhl, a Google engineer, in a 2-fold bid to fight boredom and figure out something to cover a large barren wall in his living room, one weekend developed a Java program using an annealing algorithm to figure out the best layout and colors of Lego blocks to reproduce a source image exclusively in Lego blocks inside a frame. He plans to release the source code soon. I probably would have just painted the wall ..."

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  1. Re:slashdotted already! by dnwq · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nyud.net mirror. Slow, but works.

  2. Eric Harshbarger by amyhughes · · Score: 4, Informative

    This guy has been doing LEGO mosaics for years, and if you google a bit you'll find others and the code for creating them.

  3. Re:slashdotted already! by rsk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Working on getting this horse running again. Sorry for that guys.