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Subject: 
Sample Mosaic Picture (was: How to maximize 90-piece bags?)
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Date: 
Thu, 9 Nov 2000 06:44:55 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Todd Lehman writes:

Therefore, it makes more sense to distribute the 83 evenly across all colors
as follows:

  369 Black => 5 bags of 90 Black
  369 DGray => 5 bags of 90 DGray
  369 MGray => 5 bags of 90 MGray
  369 LGray => 5 bags of 90 LGray
  460 White => 6 bags of 90 White

I believe this is an optimal solution (proof left as an exercise to the
reader) with sufficient padding to ensure a total of 26 bags of 90 elements,
for a total of 2340 elements, whether the threshold is 88->90 or 89->91 or
90->92.  This gives approximately 10% padding on each color in the worst case
scenario of 90->92.


I have placed a 44x44 picture of myself in GIF format at

  http://public.surfree.com/werdna/asl_mosaic.gif

By what I can only describe as a remarkable coincidence (:-)),
this self-portrait appears to use exactly 369 pixels each of
Black, DGray, LGray and White, and 460 pixels of MGray (I do
not guarantee this is correct - it's too close to my bedtime
for me to check it thoroughly by hand).


   Andrew



Message is in Reply To:
  How to maximize 90-piece bags?
 
(...) Hmm. I bet they're *really* 90-count bags and the extras are for if you go over 88, not 90. That is, I'll speculate that if you need 87 or 88, you get one bag. But if you need 89, 90, 91, 92, or any number up to 176, you get two bags. (Just a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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