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Re: Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf]

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I once tried a puzzle with a significant amount of almost completely black pieces. It was faster to just brute force the pieces than to even bother looking at their shape. All you do is sort the pieces by the number of tabs/holes, look at a specific spot you want to fill and then mindlessly try every eligible piece.

This is basically my end game strategy for puzzles once all the parts with distinguishing patterns has been solved and you’re left with e.g. a bunch of blue sky pieces. It’s a bit dull, especially the sorting st the beginning, but it gets satisfyingly faster as you near the end and the number of candidates gets progressively smaller.

Re: Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf]

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This PDF credits include Mark Roper. The corresponding video is: Mark Roper - My Puzzle Robot is 200x Faster Than a Human https://youtu.be/Sqr-PdVYhY4

Small correction: It's Mark Rober, not Roper

A typo I can no longer correct. That will be a thorn in my side now.

Mark Roþer. There (and yes, that's very wrong).

Re: Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf]

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This PDF credits include Mark Roper. The corresponding video is: Mark Roper - My Puzzle Robot is 200x Faster Than a Human https://youtu.be/Sqr-PdVYhY4

Which is basically a total rip-off of the Stuff Made Here version where the actual engineering process is the highlight, not Rober's shilling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu_1S77XkiM

Re: Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf]

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This PDF credits include Mark Roper. The corresponding video is: Mark Roper - My Puzzle Robot is 200x Faster Than a Human https://youtu.be/Sqr-PdVYhY4

Which is basically a total rip-off of the Stuff Made Here version where the actual engineering process is the highlight, not Rober's shilling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu_1S77XkiM

That video is linked literally in the first paragraph of the PDF.

The video also starts with him acknowledging the Stuff Made Here version, and the fact that the developer of that project said he wasn't totally satisfied with his solution.

I think calling it a rip-off is a bit harsh.

Re: Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is basically a total rip-off of the Stuff Made Here version where the actual engineering process is the highlight, not Rober's shilling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu_1S77XkiM

That video is linked literally in the first paragraph of the PDF. The video also starts with him acknowledging the Stuff Made Here version, and the fact that the developer of that project said he wasn't totally satisfied with his solution. I think calling it a rip-off is a bit harsh.

He also pointed out that the Stuff Made Here video came out well after they had already started.

Re: Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf]

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This PDF credits include Mark Roper. The corresponding video is: Mark Roper - My Puzzle Robot is 200x Faster Than a Human https://youtu.be/Sqr-PdVYhY4

Mark Rober doesn't do any engineering himself, he's the CEO who claims credit for what other people do.

For example, he didn't create the glitter bomb, his most viewed video. That was done by Sean Hodgins (making-of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMxOmUcfOI). Sean's name was not mentioned at all in the glitter bomb video. Instead, Mark Rober claimed he built it by himself.

Re: Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf]

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I once tried a puzzle with a significant amount of almost completely black pieces. It was faster to just brute force the pieces than to even bother looking at their shape. All you do is sort the pieces by the number of tabs/holes, look at a specific spot you want to fill and then mindlessly try every eligible piece.

It depends on the puzzle, but one problem here is when there's multiple possible pieces that fit. I have a 3000-piece puzzle where the blue sky was like this: many of the pieces were nearly identical, so there were multiple pieces that could fit together at any point. You'd only figure it a piece was in the wrong place when you couldn't fit any of the neighbors.
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