in reply to Do you suffer "Jigsaw rage"?

I just read the article and immediately thought: What, there's other ways to do it than start with the border? I'm not exactly sure whether I do it that way because it makes the most sense to me, or just because thats the only way I've only seen other people make puzzles. I guess I do find it neater that way.. Not that I've done any puzzles in a long time, somehow there's no room here to lay them out any length of time.

Anyway, I can't really see any parallels to the way I code much. I suppose I do prefer well defined tasks - "You do this bit, I'll do that bit", but I don't remember having problems solving jigsaws together with other people.

C.

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Re^2: Do you suffer "Jigsaw rage"?
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 03, 2005 at 04:16 UTC

    I think the article is talking about people who insist on finishing all of the border first before they even start working on the rest. Personally, recalling from the few times I did a jiggsaw, I start with the border too, but I never complete it. I might if I had the patience, but I just don’t. I work my way through detail-rich areas of the image where it’s easy to see which pieces go where. That organic growth is the gratifying part. The large flat-coloured areas where you have to guess more than arrange are always last and completed far more lackadaisically than the rest.

    The article does have a point in that, upon reflection, this mirrors the way I generally approach any project quite well.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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