The fun of jigsaw puzzles

Into the pit spent a month on the jigsaw puzzle. He first watched a lot of materials and up master's jigsaw video, and then spent a week in Taobao shop, starting with a set of Tancheng Thangka jigsaw puzzle with a price of 1000, which was completed in three days. Now challenge 2000 Zhao Mengfu Heart Sutra calligraphy.

When I first came across the jigsaw puzzle, I was immediately attracted to into the pit. I want to spell out all my favorite puzzles one by one, and match them with photo frames to become traces of time. This stems from the attraction of puzzles.

The process of jigsaw puzzle is from disorder to order, from unknown to knowing the answer. For human beings, the unknown and controllable are always full of excitement and irresistible attraction.

All games take advantage of human psychology. In contrast, jigsaw puzzles fully combine the effects of hands-on, legs-moving, brains-moving and heart-moving, and friends without intensive phobia strongly recommend giving it a try. Moreover, even if you are addicted, it won't cost you too much money and time. Puzzle is a slow game for rational people.

There are many puzzles. I mainly talk about my adult paper airplane puzzle in into the pit. Just a complete picture, cut into pieces to disturb the order, without prompting, only a small printed picture for reference.

Of course, there are many kinds of puzzles, such as three-dimensional, spherical, puzzle maze puzzle, decryption puzzle, solid color hell puzzle and so on. Paper airplane puzzles are just one of them. Jigsaw steps: "Corner back first, outside first and then inside", and jigsaw method: "Color separation and zoning, directional positioning".

Anyone who has never played these methods knows that it looks nothing special. However, how to distinguish the order and how to orient and locate will vary from person to person and from picture to picture. Many tips and techniques are made by spelling, which is absolutely exclusive.

Describing the process of putting the puzzle together as 44 16 words is to determine the strategy, and the fun and efficiency of execution are tactical.

Take Thangka 1000 tablets and Heart Sutra 2000 tablets, the way to determine the angle is different. Similarly, different steps in different images have different problems to solve.

Thangka puzzles are square, symmetrical in four directions, and almost identical in graphics. After finding four corners, we are faced with the problem that we can't tell the direction. The solution is to spell the edge first and then try the angle again. You can find it by turning four corners. For Thangka, it is the order of first edge, then corner and then partition. The most important purpose of splicing corners is to provide direction and zoning coordinates for later zoning splicing.

There is a similar problem in The Mystery of Heart Sutra. Its top, bottom, left and right are symmetrical and consistent, and the top and bottom direction can only be determined from the seal position when it is spliced to the third line of the horizontal row. Therefore, in order to orient, it is necessary to spell out the red print extending to the edge at the same time of edge stitching for orientation.

With the goal of determining the four directions of up, down, left and right, we can spell out each corner, find the most distinctive features and help identify the direction. The direction is uncertain, regardless of internal details.

Generally, when the edges and corners are basically completed, as long as the orientation can be met, color separation and zoning can be started. Because the cut color films are very similar, individual color films may be buried in other categories. The less one or two, the harder it is to find them at once. At this time, don't struggle, even if there are a few gaps that can be filled up after being discovered slowly, as long as it doesn't affect the direction of identifying the whole picture, you can enter the step of color separation and partition.

The principle of color separation and partition is to get as many reference clues as possible while minimizing the positioning interval of color films.

As the name implies, "color separation and blocking" is to divide the whole picture area into regions according to the bright colors of a large area or the characteristics of the same type, and then separate the corresponding blocks according to the characteristics for alignment.

There are four location reference clues: cut, color, figure and feature. Generally speaking, the same type of graphics and colors are the easiest partition clues to identify, while cutting and features play an accurate role in positioning. Don't put the partition into a certain partition in advance without getting it, because partition errors will be difficult to find. It is best to leave an uncertain classification and keep the slices with unclear partitions in it.

In accurate positioning, there are often many suitable positions, and due to the lack of enough clues, it is impossible to locate accurately for a time. At this time, you can choose one of them first, as long as the incision corresponds, it will be used as a placeholder temporarily, and then proofread the position after more slices and clues are added around.

The most useful features in slicing are natural boundary lines and characteristic lines. Because these two clues can provide the direction information and position information of the slice at the same time. Slices that lack features and are similar in color are left to the later stage. Be sure to spell out the obvious features first. As the number of unpatched fragments decreases, the details in those patterns that look similar can play a "clue" role.

Master the above principles, apply and determine the order of puzzles when encountering different puzzles, and leave the rest to time. Next, let's talk about the tactics of puzzles. How to make the puzzle interesting without collapse and whether to rework it quickly depends on these skills.

Sometimes the puzzle will go smoothly, and sometimes it will be blocked. I don't know. How else can I say that solving puzzles can be patient? I really can't remember, it's another regional judgment error, and I may have to reverse the work greatly. Moreover, puzzles look for ideas first, and ideas are not always effective. Take 2000 heart sutra as an example, when spelling up and down mounting lines, it is very scratching.

There are about 250 heart meridians in four rows from top to bottom. Except for the different incisions, the pattern is exactly the same. And there is not enough information about the side panel to judge whether it is top or bottom. Faced with 250 almost identical decorations, I really scratched my head. Each slice has four directions, which may be above or below. It took a whole night at first, and finally two pieces were put together.

Later, I simply connected several lines according to the incision, except for the incision pair and the split pair, almost all the slice positions were wrong.

What are the disadvantages? The seam is uneven, and the position where the pattern cannot be connected can be adjusted according to the position of the pattern.

This trick is very effective when framing more than 400 heart sutras. With enough details, fine-tuning can gradually find the exact position.

Sometimes I don't want to do puzzles. Once I slack off, I may stop for a few days. Let yourself spell at least one piece every day. With the beginning of the first fragment, you may be able to piece together two or three fragments. Without knowing it, the puzzle can continue.

It's easy to forget the time in the puzzle, and an hour passed quickly. It is also common to keep your eyes shining after fighting into the dead of night. After all, puzzles are games, which affect normal life and work but are counterproductive. Therefore, it is very important to determine the latest end time of the puzzle and ensure adequate sleep.

Basically, it is difficult to finish it in three or two days, and sometimes even little progress is made. At this time, people's patience is being tested. A good idea is to take a picture of the finished product with the same angle and light every day. In this way, we can review the process of the puzzle and make this marathon game have a sense of time. It changes every day, so it is not so difficult to stick to it. And after the puzzle is finished, editing it into a video is also a very interesting commemoration.

Puzzle is a systematic project, in which there are nothing more than two actions: dividing and finding. After the classification principle is determined, "finding" is the most laborious thing. Because the operation is very simple, just color separation and classification, men, women and children can play. It is really a game suitable for the whole family. And some people are good at finding through incisions, while others are good at graphics or colors. It's really a lot of thinking. The speed is not only fast, but also the addiction of "general planning and commander-in-chief" Everyone is happy.

However, we should also guard against the situation that the classification principle is not clear, and failure to cooperate will become unpleasant. Generally speaking, after dividing the area and the corresponding slice, you can work together. It is a pleasure for several people to work together to complete a beautiful picture from a messy color block. Look, this painting was pieced together at that time. ...

In the past month, puzzles have given me and my family a lot of fun, and life is quiet and interesting. There is less time to watch mobile phones, and leisure time is accumulated and presented in puzzles.

It's late at night, cicadas are singing outside the window, and many more pieces are put together in our puzzle.