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trickykitty) wrote2008-10-13 04:54 pm
trickykitty) wrote2008-10-13 04:54 pm
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Tut Update
Tut Defined - in case you missed it
material: Ministeck
(One site noted that this toy was quite popular in the 1970-1980's, and another person's comment on Flickr was "IT CAME BACK!")
Each ~5" color "stick" (see pics here) holds 42 pieces of this 10,400-piece pixelated puzzle (128x160 pixels). This particular puzzle comes with 258 total sticks in 23 different colors. The pieces have to be separated from the plastic bars that they came on. The pieces are square, rectangular, or l-shaped and represent anywhere from 1 to 4 pixels of space. Each pixel of the puzzle is just under .5 square cm in size (read: exceptionally tiny). They get placed on plastic peg boards (for lack of a better description) until the whole image is filled in.
This is a cross between a jigsaw and a lite-brite/Lego/blocks/Tetris fill-in-the-space game. In fact, many people use the very thin Legos to create similar pixelated images, but the first one I ever came across was this Ministeck puzzle, so that's what I'm sticking with.
Here's a great step-by-step Ministeck of the Gauss bill being created.
EDIT: There is great temptation to use the PicToBrick program to find the correct Ministeck dimensions for creating a Zero Wing mosaic. After all, it's pre-pixelated.
material: Ministeck
(One site noted that this toy was quite popular in the 1970-1980's, and another person's comment on Flickr was "IT CAME BACK!")
Each ~5" color "stick" (see pics here) holds 42 pieces of this 10,400-piece pixelated puzzle (128x160 pixels). This particular puzzle comes with 258 total sticks in 23 different colors. The pieces have to be separated from the plastic bars that they came on. The pieces are square, rectangular, or l-shaped and represent anywhere from 1 to 4 pixels of space. Each pixel of the puzzle is just under .5 square cm in size (read: exceptionally tiny). They get placed on plastic peg boards (for lack of a better description) until the whole image is filled in.
This is a cross between a jigsaw and a lite-brite/Lego/blocks/Tetris fill-in-the-space game. In fact, many people use the very thin Legos to create similar pixelated images, but the first one I ever came across was this Ministeck puzzle, so that's what I'm sticking with.
Here's a great step-by-step Ministeck of the Gauss bill being created.
EDIT: There is great temptation to use the PicToBrick program to find the correct Ministeck dimensions for creating a Zero Wing mosaic. After all, it's pre-pixelated.
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