creating a jigsaw puzzle

#1

Hi,

I am trying to create a 30 piece jigsaw puzzle without modeling (if that is possible) in POV-ray. I have one piece made and was wondering if I can write a loop around it at all in doing this. For example, I want to create one 30 piece puzzle (5 rows by 6 cols) and then another 32 piece w/different dimensions. Taking the first case, I could create all the corner pieces individually but then the pieceat (1,1) could be identical to (4,1) reflected over the x axis. Is it worthtrying to use a loop for the edge pieces at all? Is it worth trying to usea loop for all the non-edge pieces? Is it easier to just try to create all the pieces individually since there are 62?

Just to clarify my message above, I am using the following conventions: the first row is row 0 and the first column is col 0.

Also, if there are any resources of something similar out there, I would appreciate any pointers to them.

Thanks for any thoughts.

#2

Sorry for the bad formating in my message.

#3

…that I might be able to create the image I want by creating a box and drawing the outlines of individuals pieces on the surface either. I’m not sure how to do this in POV-ray but I will address that question on another forum.

#4

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