I imagine that most of you are pretty familiar with the idea of the 15 Puzzle. Basically, it's a puzzle with a frame with 15 tiles in it, arranged in a 4X4 grid pattern, and you move a tile at a time until it is in a correct order to create an image (or just have the numbers 1-15 in sequence). It's really old and most people have probably seen one by now.
About 2 years ago, around April 2008, I made a 15 puzzle that ALWAYS makes a continuous picture, no matter where or in what orientation each tile is. Here are some pictures.
I'm working on a new one that will be more sturdy and will be a single object instead of a frame with a bunch of objects in it (the tiles in the one pictured above are made out of flimsy half-inch foamcore, and fall right out of the frame if you turn it upside down). Here's the image I'll be laying onto the tiles:
When I've chopped up that image and polished each tile image in photoshop (it was freehanded and there are some incongruencies), I'll post a few recombinations of it. Also, when I'm finished crafting the actual wooden puzzle I'm making that will have this image on it, I'll post that.
Currently taking votes as to which tile to leave out of the puzzle (I can only use 15, obviously).
