Computer-Aided Lego Art Project

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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Re:Ah memories....

[morgan_greywolf]

Apparently writing a parser and an event loop with some event handlers taps a part of my brain unhindered by all the alcohol, etc.

Posting on Slashdot again, huh? Well, you are SO FIRED! *throws chair* I'm gonna fscking KILL coolgeek!!!

Now where am I going to get another developer for Windows 7? Developers, developers, developers!

Thanks,
Steve Ballmer

Re:Similar

[jellomizer]

I'm a much better programmer now, just for the record. :)

I am not sure why you had to qualify that. If you are a programmer and you do it longer you get better for at it.

I was a good programmer even before I started college. After college I was a much better programmer. Starting working I was a really good programmer... Now I am even better at it...

However over time we tend to specialize in different areas. Mine are in web application development, Business Intelligence and legacy maintenance. Others focus on a particular languages, others on types of algorithms, it looks like you are interested in 3D graphics...

This is a more realistic view. Programmers want to make themselves seem like they are the worlds best programmer but in truth if they are not to high on them selfs they are a good programmer with a strong focus in an area. The more split focuses that you have the chances are you are not going to the best programmer in any topic... However you can be a good programmer in those topics and more flexible.