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So make it more fun:

* Support crosscut shredders (shredded in both directions).

* Make it work even if the shreds aren't all the same size.

* Make it work when there are some pieces missing.

* Show where those missing pieces would probably go.

* Make it work when two images' shreds are mixed together.

* (with missing pieces)

* (generalized to N images)

* Predict what the missing pieces might look like (this one is much tougher).

* Think of ways you could cheat (like searching Tineye for the fragments to find the original image, if it was originally online somewhere).

You can keep going as long as you want. If it's too easy, just make it harder.

Edited because HN doesn't support Markdown or linebreaks. :(



If it's too easy, just make it harder.

Absolutely.

Wa can make it harder in many creative ways, and that would be fun, but I wrote this comment to express the feeling of disappointment I had when I saw the post. I felt a little bit like someone showed me a candy but already ate half of it.


* write a plugin for photoshop or gimp that will select the arbitrary shreds.

Does that exist already?


Implement zoom and enhance so we can see what all the people in those buildings are up to.


Also: make it work for shreds at any angle and overlapping, as if you dumped the pieces on a flatbed scanner and hit 'scan'.


Another idea: combine it with a file recovery or computer forensic program to stitch jpeg file fragments together.




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