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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:Similar by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm guessing you never played with Legos in your childhood years.

    And neither did you. It's Lego, dagnabbit: it's not countable. There is no such thing as "a Lego", it's just "Lego", like there's no such thing as "a butter".

    HAL.

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