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Solving the Impossible: Algorithmically Assembling a 4,000-Piece All-White Puzzle
When a puzzle has no picture, the only way to solve it is through pure geometric brute force. I built a robot that uses 128-dimensional locality-sensitive hashing to find matching edges in milliseconds. It turns out that the hardest part isn't the code—it's dealing with the 'garbage data' of fuzzy cardboard edges and physical alignment errors.
Dec 1, 2022