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The pieces for this puzzle would be capable of changing to form different scenes based on the code sent to them in an electronic initialization box. The pictures would start out simple and get progressivly harder as your skills increased, going from basic scenery to Escher type prints. This would give
you several puzzles for the price of one. (If you found yourself in the middle of an easy one you could up the difficulty mid-game too, having it change the goal picture on the fly.)
Surface
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
it has little glas squares that make pictures under them.... [rascalraidex, Oct 19 2007]
All we really need is fat e-paper to make it work
http://www.pcworld....page,1/article.html
Not "very magic", just a few years away [longshot9999, Oct 19 2007]
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Took me a while to realise you meant a jigsaw puzzle. Good idea, but I can't think of any technology to do this that would be as flat as a normal jigsaw puzzle - perhaps some description of how it works would help? |
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If you check out Microsoft Surface, it would probably be able to do it. Pretty crazy stuff goin on with that. |
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Surface would be able to simulate a puzzle on screen, but that wouldn't appeal to me nearly so much as having the physical pieces to play with. |
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it is physical pieces, you can pick them up and move them around, take em off the table, put em back on.... |
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//change the goal picture on the fly// |
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You could actually make the puzzle easier by flicking between goal pictures from time to time. This is because a difficult (poorly-differentiated) region of one goal picture might correspond to an easy, well differentiated region of a different picture. |
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For example, you might be getting stuck in the middle of a bland expanse of sky in a seascape; flip the picture and now you're looking at the well-defined boundary between a dark pine and a lighter-green oak in a forest scene. |
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Or... rather than a simple jigsaw that has reconfigurable image on it you could have pieces that continually cycle though a series of images. A piece might fit in a number of places for the different images, but only one location where it fits for all of the images. |
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Makes sense. And it would be extremely hard to solve. |
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//check out Microsoft Surface//
According to their rather annoying demo,
this is intended for a world where leezhoor
is the rule. Where does that leave those of
us who just want to relax? |
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