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- xerus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+132You win this round, Photoshop.
- NuclearBlast, on 10/11/2007, -14/+113I'm pretty sure the slashdot effect only happens on slashdot you useless sack of filth.
- stealth45, on 10/11/2007, -2/+78taint.org? Dugg.
- BugMeNot2, on 10/11/2007, -2/+66How to solve a maze with Photoshop
June 19, 2007 at 12:15 pm
wow, this is cool. ‘lod3n’, confronted by this heinous puzzle, wrote:
‘2 minutes in Photoshop. All too easy. So, where do I pick up my cake?
1. Increase contrast.
2. Select the right wall of the maze using the magic wand.
3. Select > Modify > Expand 4 pixels
4. Create new layer.
5. Fill with Red.
6. Select > Modify > Contract 2 pixels.
7. Delete. Now you’ve got a line tracing the solution.
8. Manually clean up the outer edge, and connect the dots.
9. Cake!’
Here’s the result. Seriously nifty!
http://taint.org.nyud.net:8090/2007/06/19/121541a.html - NuclearBlast, on 10/11/2007, -4/+55Too bad Photoshop can't help them out with the digg effect.
- zephc, on 10/11/2007, -3/+48the server is on a rack mount, located between balls.com and butthole.net
- f3l1x, on 10/11/2007, -6/+45maybe.
nice avatar. - TremorX, on 10/11/2007, -4/+40This is kind of stupid and pretty common-sense.
Now, the real trick is to make it so Photoshop automatically finds Waldo. - InnateEvil, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36obviously solving it just using the brain is not the right of way in modern society...
- al28p, on 10/11/2007, -3/+36video : http://ibloggedthis.com/
- kryx2, on 10/11/2007, -2/+34Result mirror:
http://i9.tinypic.com/6fj3ajl.jpg - saleem, on 10/11/2007, -1/+30I can probably just say "bury me" and I would have a better comment. You are an idiot (and wrong).
- myfanwy, on 10/11/2007, -5/+28people digg it as a bookmark, then come back later
digg has many problems, not having a bookmarking option is one of them - spudnic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+25@Endies (#7292168)
What are you, a monkey? We have tools now - Azdak, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19uhh, that would fill in every possible fork as well...
- evanfrey, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19Directions for doing this in Gimp
1. Choose Tools > Color Tools > Brightness-Contrast. Increase contrast
2. Select the right wall of the maze using the magic wand.
3. Choose Select > Grow > Expand 4 pixels
4. Create new layer.
5. Fill with Red.
6. Choose Select > Shrink > Contract 2 pixels.
7. Delete. Now you’ve got a line tracing the solution.
8. Manually clean up the outer edge, and connect the dots. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16have to be sure to give "explorers" photoshop, and access to google maps...
- Peterix, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19It's a delicious cake, you must eat it!
- zachninme, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18It works in GIMP too, its just called "Grow/Shrink" instead of Modify>Expand/Contract. Its in the Select menu though. And if you've never used GIMP before, to "delete" a section, its Edit>Clear.
Also, for me, after following those directions, it only cleared off 1/2 the red splotch. To fix this, I selected it, shrank it by 2 pixels, and then deleted that half of it. - Simplogic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12how ***** cool is that! here's a maze generator to play w/ http://www.billsgames.com/mazegenerator/
- zachninme, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11@TremorX (#7292391)
I'm sure theres this automagical way to search for pixels, if you know the pixelated pattern of Waldo. - bradwilki, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12The sites not down its just really slow.
I praise the person who discovered this for answering a question that I never knew needed to be answered. - deeboe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Pfft! That was totaly photoshopped... err... wait....
- mattmcm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Clever stuff.
- Jadael, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Pretty sure the Magic Wand has been around since 0.617 when they used it to work on The Abyss.
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -2/+11It's insane this guy's taint!
- digitalArtform, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Yep. readams has it right: Same as putting your right hand on a wall and never removing it. Solves many mazes - but NOT ALL MAZES.
Won't solve mazes where the solution is its own 'island' with no connecting walls - protohiro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9This is the wall follower algorithm. Look it up on the internet for how this is applied in the realm of computer science.
- rubbers0ul, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9you know, pencils also work well for solving a maze, but that's just my personal experience
- Endies, on 10/11/2007, -6/+14So whats the point of solving a maze with photoshop?
- kibblesnbitz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8The "impossible Maze" suddenly becomes not so impossible:
http://www.mazes.org.uk/impossible-maze-01.htm - kajer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9why not simply go around the maze?
after all, you and the cake are on the outside of the maze, so why go in? - DarkXanthos, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Anyone else see the enormous implications of this on computer science? It'd be interesting to see how this could be applied to a pure data model.
- BevansDesign, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10Holy crap, I've got this huge stack of mazes I've gotta solve. What am I gonna do?
Seriously though, I think this person is missing the point of doing mazes. - IpHa, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Wow, that's awesome.
Here's one I made: http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9381/mazezf6.png - manofaction, on 11/02/2007, -6/+13Can't you do this with paint like this:
1. Close off both exits using a line
2. Use the fill tool
3. Get an A in Kindergarten!
(4. Profit?) - BMANZZS, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Solved:
http://i18.tinypic.com/676yyv4.png
Warning: Image is 1202x802 - veeshy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7i would just use my chainsaw
- rompom7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6@bryceman111: origins: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbzone.html
- cinder, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6In Photoshop Action form: http://element94.org/MazeSolution.atn
That assumes your foreground color is already set and you've done the selection with the magic wand. - drouk1556, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Have you ever used Photoshop before? The Magic Wand tool has been around since AT LEAST Photoshop 7.
It's the one that looks like a magic wand. - IAmRoot, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8I find it easier just to fill the walls to each side of the beginning with red and blue. Then the path is the area between the two colors. If there is any unfilled areas, you can just choose any path around them. You also can do it with any image editing software, even paint.
- they, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Step 1: mspaint
Step 2: "Paint dump" red on one wall of the maze, turning that side of the maze red.
Step 3: "Paint dump" blue on the not red side of the maze.
Step 4: Draw line through center of red and blue. - jbarget, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Whoever made these absurd mazes is an *****.
- slicedoranges, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I'll have that delicious cake in no time.
- GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8I tried that on 3 mazes and it worked every time. Bravo! I would expect more diggs for this ingenuity.
- bmxboy661, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7i can't get it to work with the new stupid magic wand tool in CS3.
stupid maze. thinks its better than me. - rheaume, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Thats like asking "whats the fun in wall hacking"
- templest, on 10/11/2007, -5/+10"taint.org" ahahahahaha
"taint"... ahahahaha - fatpads, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I guess one way to make it easier would be to pull down the saturation for everything that wasn't red.
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