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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. Similar by Arngautr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OK, I have to show off - I did something similar four years ago.
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    I'm a much better programmer now, just for the record. :)

  2. In a frame on his wall? Really? by greg_barton · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about glass tiles on a 100'x30' wall, or a 30'x75' wall?

    I wrote the code, my brother in law did the hard parts.