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You need to have wooden pieces rather than cardboard because the card ones wooden float.
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I, like most person's who've ever done a real live jigsaw puzzle start with the edges - as we all have learned (one way or another) you must attend to the boundary conditions.
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I'd call edge pieces a class.
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That depends upon if the puzzle has an image and what it is. Or, rather, what sort of "Objects" it has. The general case, however, is not object oriented.
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One of the best jigsaws I ever did - before we got a cat, they and jigsaws are not a good combination - was an odd one: the picture on the box was a crowd of people looking surprised / shocked / whatever at something you couldn't see. The picture on the jigsaw was the scene rotated 180 degrees so you could see what they were looking at and the backs of the crowd ...
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And what were they looking at?
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What would have been perfect would be a working mirror - tearing down the boundary between solving a puzzle and being part of it.
Further expansion on this theme would be good for a "Grade B" horror movie's entire plot.
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a subset of "divide and conquer"
Press F1 for help or google it.
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Yep. I've gotten into solving them in COVIDland and retirement. Generally, I'll work on the borders and collect similar-looking interior pieces to get small "clumps" which fit into the puzzle later.
To keep with the development analogy, I think it is like bounding the problem and then iterating on the details.
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Painfully joining into your extension of my post:
The sorted clumps are your functions and the remainder, within the main() frame are for instances of the functions.
And to all readers, I apologize for extending this.
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And Brute force = King of problem solving, unless efficiency is a requirement.
System requirements are not high either, can work great even for braindead and lazy programmers.
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organize all the pieces with straight edges and corner pieces first, and then further organize those by color and pattern.
Then organize all other pieces by color/pattern.
Don't write any software apps to do this as it takes all the fun out of it.
Try your hardest to complete the puzzle without referring to the picture on the box.
Proceed to go mildly insane for an indefinite period of time.
rinse. repeat.
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Ye. Yes. Yes. Always edges first.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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It took me a lot of self control to select between the serious ones I learnt from my puzzle-junkie mother, who always used divide et impera. Start from the frame pieces, then classify the pieces and solve portions of the image.
She completed a 12700 and a 19000 pieces puzzle, it was glorious.
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I'm with your Mum there. That is the way I solve them.
I don't know I have ever seen puzzles with that many pieces.
How long did the largest one take her?
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I can't rembember if 6 or 9 months, mostly due to the logistic difficulty of using three different wooden boards to support the gigantic puzzle.
The 12000 pieces took her 3 months, but it had a much lower surface.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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First I do the edge of the puzzle and then do the "Scan each piece, write a quick app that will work out which goes with which" with just my brain. I go after patterns, e.g. I often do puzzles with wolves and a forest or sth like that, so I do the edge and then go after the furr, the furr leads to the face and so on..
Is this that uncommon?
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I think that would be the "divide and conquer" approach.
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Common? Uncommon?
That depends a lot upon the people you hang around with and how many of them have furry faces.
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Weird flex bro
How many people with furry faces do YOU know? I know none, at least I think so.
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Denise K wrote: Weird flex bro OK - you got me. This old man's confused.
WTF does that actually mean ? ? ?
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Um well, I don't know how to describe it properly, but I used it like "Okay, that's one strange thing to conclude from my text."
You can use it in various ways but here's the meaning according to Urban Dictionary.
"Flexing" normally means to brag about something, but my friends also use it in it's literal meaning.
I hope this helps
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It helps, but does so in a rather depressing sort of way.
Basically, it appears to mean nothing at all as it's meaning is not even clear to you, a user. More or less a lexicographical abortion.
Or, perhaps for Egg-shaped dwellers in wonderland, to wit: This[^]
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First off: Wow, wtf did I just read.
Actually, I meant, I can't describe it properly, because I can't find the proper words for it and if it's really comprehensible for you.
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Vieleicht das ist mehr etwas einfach: wiederholen Sie,[^]
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