Computer-Aided Lego Art Project 112
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 ..."
Similar (Score:5, Interesting)
Post [cgsociety.org]
Webpage [lunarpages.com]
I'm a much better programmer now, just for the record.
In a frame on his wall? Really? (Score:5, Interesting)
How about glass tiles on a 100'x30' wall, [hzgstudio.org] or a 30'x75' [geocaching.com] wall?
I wrote the code [java.net], my brother in law did the hard parts. [flickr.com]
Re:Prior Art (Score:4, Interesting)