This is a great example of "Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should!"
This just needed
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A tessellation.
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A SVG warper to distort it, so that all the pieces are slightly different.
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AI image generator, in this case Flux-dev Depth.
This puzzle is much too difficult. There are no color cues. The shapes are different enough that they’re not interchangeable, but similar enough to make it easy to fit the wrong piece.
Here’s another example, easier, normal pieces. The AI image prompt was something like “Silly marquetry Easter faces.”
That’s a lot of lizards for sure. They are great
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean the rest of us can - except we can because you shared the fun. Thanks so much!
This is really cool, all of your projects are!
Never enough lizards to pay homage to MC Escher, whose tessellated art is wonderful, but you took it to a new level!
As always, impressive work @Purplie.
Oh, yours really came together nicely. The shape, the border, the pattern, the colors, very well balanced.
It is a dead app, still working but no longer available.
The design has been a dud, always at the bottom of the list.
Oh my goodness!! This is so cool!!
@Purplie there is no description to your work, you can´t just post something like this and not elaborate for the benefit of the rest of us…
- Are the individual lizards patterns AI generated to fit into the “standard” Escher shape?
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Is this a physical cut puzzle or just a render.
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Are the individual lizards sublimation printed onto a substrate and cut?
Too many questions, but your work always tends to test the boundaries and generate awe.
Thanks, everyone, @wenning08 @dklgood @Aloha @reynoso @rbtdanforth @ptodd!
Are the individual lizards patterns AI generated to fit into the “standard” Escher shape
Yes — actually, each piece has a slightly different shape, and the lizards were individually AI-generated to fit the shapes. (I wrote a script to turn each shape into a simple depth map, and used flux.1-depth-dev.)
The picture is just a render; I haven’t cut it yet. It will be inkjet printed on paper and mounted on plywood. I haven’t tried sublimation yet… maybe I should give it a shot.
I actually made a puzzle with Escher lizard pieces a couple of years ago, using an ordinary photo from Hawaii. By the time I got it assembled, I was convinced I never wanted to see another lizard again, ever 
I was preparing to make another one of those, and I made the mistake of asking myself what picture I wanted to use…
The title honors Too Many Cooks.
Thanks for the cool share.
Ooh, I’d love to cut these out for my daughter and her family. They’ve really gotten into doing puzzles. But when I click to download, all I get is the pic and not the cut lines.
It’s the “Click here for the full pattern” link. Or try this:
https://mchrisman.github.io/jigsawGenerator/lizards-flat.svg
Does that work? “Save as…”
One layer has just the cut lines (edges), another layer has the image, and a third layer has the closed-loop piece shapes.
Let me know if you’re still having problems. (With the download. I can’t help you when it comes to solving the puzzle!!)
This is great!
This looks amazing! So many neat ideas in this one.
Maybe it should be repurposed as a mirror. I don’t know if GF sells proofgrade mirror acrylic but if not, then they should.
Actually, if someone wanted a 12" round mirror they could start with or create a 12" circle (even a plus could play pro for that much) and then make the interior the 10.75 centered in that. Because of the way the angels were created, they are all pretty exactly the same shape, so either a 10.9" circle behind or the angels cut out individually and inset. As the angels never made 50% even the first month, I never followed up on the idea beyond making a puzzle with an image, but all the pieces were the same shape (Like if you had a nice jungle photo, but the pieces were all your lizards) I did that before the angels I think.
So cool! Now I get your other post. I’m a little late to the party…