Jigsaw Puzzle Image Format

An image is nominally a 240 x 240 block. The number 240 was chosen so that the block may be cut into either

    a 2 x 2 array of 120 x 120 pieces
    a 3 x 3 array of  80 x 80  pieces
    a 4 x 4 array of  60 x 60  pieces
    a 5 x 5 array of  48 x 48  pieces
    a 6 x 6 array of  40 x 40  pieces
(one could in principle do 8 x 8, 10 x 10, etc. but the pieces would be miniscule).

To allow room for the little tabs which link puzzle pieces together, the 240 x 240 block is given a 30 pixel margin on all sides. Thus the final image is 300 x 300. The margin's contents simply repeat part of the central 240 x 240 block. How they repeat it depends on whether the image is for a torus or Klein bottle puzzle. In the case of a Klein bottle, the lines of symmetry will be at x = 30, x = 150, and x = 270.

The puzzle image should be a .gif or .jpeg file. I would be glad to help you convert your image from some other format if necessary.

Please do not e-mail me your puzzle image directly (big files clog up my e-mail queue). Instead please either tell me where I can download your image, or ask me to give you instructions for uploading it to a file server.

Thanks, and happy drawing!

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