Image Puzzle

A simple python program that slices a picture into N tiles, shuffles the tiles and then recreates a (shuffled) image.

Description

The program reads all images contained in the "input directory" and does the following for every image:

• Slices the image into N tiles
• Shuffles the tiles
• Adds a small border of width M to every tile (it actually paints a line over existing pixels of the tile)
• Recreates an image with the shuffled and updated tiles
• Saves the recreated image into the "output directory"

Options:

• number_tiles = the number of tiles the input image will be split into
• outline_width = the width of the border painted around every tile

Dependencies

• Python 3.7 (should probably work with prior versions)
• image_slicer

Installing

Nothing special

Executing program

Just run it

Note

I only tested it with ".png" images

I initially looked for an existing implementation for such program but could not find anything online to my surpise ... So I quickly coded it ...

Help

No help required ...

Authors

Simon Ruffieux

License

Feel free to reuse this project as you wish

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to image_slicer developers

Potential improvements

• Handle additional image formats
• Better define how to tile images by specifying desired number of rows and columns
• Ensure original adjacent tiles are not adjacent in the final image (would be interesting to achieve)
• ...