DALL-E images as Jigsaw Puzzles
DALL-E images as Jigsaw Puzzles
DALL-E in the physical world
I’m excited to say that the 9 images I made with DALL-E for jigsaw puzzles now really are available as a fancy, 9-panel wooden jigsaw puzzle called Animals in Motion. It has 225 pieces in all, and as of a few minutes ago you can buy it on our web site.
The pieces are beautifully designed by Matt Lyon. As you can see he designed some figural pieces that are also animals in motion — vroom vroom — and Matt says here in our interview with him that he brainstormed with DALL-E before drawing the piece shapes, so the puzzle is double-DALL-E in that sense. Matt then drew all the pieces by hand. As Maya said, they’re “some of our most unique whimsies ever,” which, since we’ve published 500+ different puzzles designs, is saying something.
Matt’s other pieces — the ones that are not cute little hedgehogs driving cars, ducks skateboarding, and such — have lovely knob connectors.
Matt’s beautiful hand-drawn pieces are a reminder that AI programs, no matter how impressive, are tools used by a person or a group of people. I counted at least 7 people who teamed up to make this puzzle, most of them at Artifact Puzzles: Jorge and Mysti made the actual physical puzzles with laser cutters, Chandler did the design post-work, Matt did the puzzle design, I gave DALL-E prompts and curated its output, Maya did the art direction, and a woman at our printer made sure the image printed as we intended.
Soon puzzlers will order them and the UPS guy (or in some cases the USPS guy) will pick them up from our factory in Port Townsend and hand them off to a chain of UPS guys and gals across the nation
