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4matsy
12-12-2007, 07:43 AM
"SOMEBODY GET THIS FREAKIN' DUCK AWAY FROM ME!!"


http://www.filespace.org/4matsy/polyomino_adventuredragon.png

Yeah, it's the dragon from the old Atari 2600 game Adventure. :p

I was bored, so played around with a polyomino solver I found, and this is the result.


At first I was intending to fill it with only tetrominoes, but then I found that this particular sprite has a total area of 87. >_<

I didn't feel right using only one tromino and the rest all tetrominoes, so I used 3 copies of a collection that totals 29:


I

T

O

J or L (in this case, all three were J's)

S or Z (here, all Z's)

I3

I2

L3

and Dot.


...which is pretty much Lockjaw's 10-piece bag plus the dot. :p


The original program only displays yellow blocks with red outlines; I did the recoloring manually to make it easier to see the "3 of each" rule.


Download and instructions (http://www.xs4all.nl/~gp/PolyominoSolver/downloadsolver.htm) for the polyomino solver.


The file (http://www.filespace.org/4matsy/polyomino_adventuredragon.htm) I made to create the dragon. (Right-click, save as. Drop it into the directory you unzipped the solver into.)


So, uh, yeah. SPRITES FROM TETROMINOES AND SUCH GO GO GO