There was an article in Science Daily today about something called “color sudoku.” Color sudoku is part of a research project at the University of Warwick regarding “Empriical Modeling.” It’s not entirely clear to me what this is from the article, but the general idea is to look at the interactions between logic and perception. This is where the color sudoku comes in. In color sudoku, each digit is assigned a color and each square that has that digit in it is filled with that color. The empty squares are filled with a combination of all of the colors for all of the possible digits that could go in that square. This is intended to give you clues as to what should be there. Darker colors, for example, will indicate more possibilities and, if the color in an empty square exactly matches that of a digit, you know which digit must go there.
While playing around with it, it was hard for me to see, at first, the advantage of the colors, but as more digits are filled in some patterns did begin to emerge. Though I’m not sure if logic and perception ever actually met. It’s an interesting idea and sudoku is a very accessible example, though likely not the best.
Tags: puzzles,sudoku
I wouldn’t be able to do the color sudoku, I don’t think. I’m a synaesthete and see letters and numbers in color already. It’s bad enough having to switch everything over from black, but having to switch stuff over from other colors? *shakes head* Nuh uh. No way.
Comment by lastcrazyhorn — January 7, 2008 @ 1:26 pm