Reply to post: Re: Fairly trivial with the right tool

WHERE'S WALLY? He's in this algorithm, says developer

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Re: Fairly trivial with the right tool

What Mr Olson has posted is the quickest way to find Wally yourself, without a computer.

More precisely, it's the optimal search path (at least for the corpus he used), regardless of whether you search manually or with a machine, assuming a single searcher that can only examine one neighborhood of the image at a time. But it's presented as an optimization for manual search.

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