http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking A blog for odd things and odd thoughts. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:59:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/12/26/ottf-solver/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/12/26/ottf-solver/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:23:47 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=900 OTTF (short for One Two Three Four) is a simple single-person puzzle game. I re-use my Game Framework to solve it.]]> http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/12/26/ottf-solver/feed/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/17/example-of-ambiguity-in-circuit-puzzle/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/17/example-of-ambiguity-in-circuit-puzzle/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:22:59 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=646 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/17/example-of-ambiguity-in-circuit-puzzle/feed/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/16/solving-the-circuit-game/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/16/solving-the-circuit-game/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:17:45 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=630 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/16/solving-the-circuit-game/feed/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/13/the-circuit-game-puzzle/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/13/the-circuit-game-puzzle/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:45:07 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=609 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/13/the-circuit-game-puzzle/feed/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/08/25/hashes-to-detect-resized-images/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/08/25/hashes-to-detect-resized-images/#comments Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:38:45 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=599 yet-to-be-determined destination. But here's the snag. Some of the photos have been made into different sizes and qualities for web-viewing. It would save me time if I could automatically detect this. I need an equivalent to SoundEx that works on images, so images have the same hash even if they are resized. How would you do that? If you answered "Google it, and find what the standard solution is", you might be smarter than me. This article is about what I did instead. ]]> http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/08/25/hashes-to-detect-resized-images/feed/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/08/18/chemical-word-ladders/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/08/18/chemical-word-ladders/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:10:35 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=593 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/08/18/chemical-word-ladders/feed/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/19/509/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/19/509/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:33:23 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/19/509/ Alphametics (aka verbal arithmetic, cryptarithmetic and others) puzzles are an old puzzle where letters are substituted for numbers in simple equations. Go search for alphametics for lots of examples. These puzzles never really captured my fancy, which is, weirdly enough, why I recently implemented a "puzzle helper" to help solve them.]]> http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/19/509/feed/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/12/solving-slitherlinks-with-software/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/12/solving-slitherlinks-with-software/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:36:09 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/12/solving-slitherlinks-with-software/ Slitherlinks puzzles. ]]> http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/12/solving-slitherlinks-with-software/feed/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/04/message-passing-in-my-puzzle-solving-architecture/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/04/message-passing-in-my-puzzle-solving-architecture/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:45:59 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/04/message-passing-in-my-puzzle-solving-architecture/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/04/message-passing-in-my-puzzle-solving-architecture/feed/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/03/slitherlinks-hints-and-techniques/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/03/slitherlinks-hints-and-techniques/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:02:20 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/03/slitherlinks-hints-and-techniques/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/03/slitherlinks-hints-and-techniques/feed/