jigsaw puzzle gen

[harry_nicholas]

i made a jigsaw puzzle (the hard way) years ago and made a few bob selling on the squid. i just thought it would be nice to make a puzzle generator, the logic being all you need is a curve that fits to itself, repeat it, cut the shape out of a grid, presto, jigsaws of any size (greater than 3 x 3 bits).

great, but boolean doesn't work as neatly as cookie cutter used to, and i'm scratching my head over cutting out the pieces, getting rid of remainders, etc etc. it SHOULD be simple, but i'm stuck, i have a small brain. here is my file:

anyone want to VEX a better solution than my sledgehammering?

 

make_jigsaw.101.hipnc

[harry_nicholas]

PS, is there a voronoi way to do this? i played about with the shapes tutorial, but didn't see how it would apply...thanks chums!

[kleer001]

Check out these: https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/line.php?code=12

Maybe consider a generative, random seed, based method. Noise maybe?

Use fluids to advect (then refine) curves?

[Atom]

You could check out this example.

http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=Houdini#Voronoi_cluster_and_fracture

[harry_nicholas]

56 minutes ago, kleer001 said:

Check out these: https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/line.php?code=12

Maybe consider a generative, random seed, based method. Noise maybe?

Use fluids to advect (then refine) curves?

doing something random would be nice and easy, what i'm after is just your basic jigsaw:

 

in my model there is one corner piece that rotates to make the other three corners, an upright and a horizontal for the "pieces" and two kinds of edge piece, a "concave" and a "convex", it should be easy if cookie cutter was around, just make a slice upright or horizontal, but booleans make it complicated.

 

[harry_nicholas]

42 minutes ago, Atom said:

You could check out this example.

http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=Houdini#Voronoi_cluster_and_fracture

tried these, but see the other reply, i'm trying to make conventional jigsaw puzzle pieces, if you can wangle voronoi, then great, but i don't see how, myself....thanks for the replies though guys.

[Noobini]

6 hours ago, harry_nicholas said:

doing something random would be nice and easy, what i'm after is just your basic jigsaw:

 

in my model there is one corner piece that rotates to make the other three corners, an upright and a horizontal for the "pieces" and two kinds of edge piece, a "concave" and a "convex", it should be easy if cookie cutter was around, just make a slice upright or horizontal, but booleans make it complicated.

 

this setup is avail in HDA...just search for jigsaw puzzle

[ronald_a]

On 7.5.2019 at 9:11 AM, Noobini said:

this setup is avail in HDA...just search for jigsaw puzzle

Hi,

I would be in need of your jigsaw puzzle hda but it seems it is no longer available. Is there any chance you are sharing this again. Thanks in advance.