Bead pictures
Bead pictures
Development of a Computing Science system for the automated creation of plug-in bead patterns
Bachelor thesis
Completed on 17 September 2013 by Henning Ziegler
Background
Beads are small, colourful plastic tubes of about 5mm length. These can be placed on a nailboard-like base to create colourful patterns. In a subsequent step, these bead patterns can be fused together using a hot iron, for example. In this way, they retain their shape even after being removed from the "nail board" and can then be used as coasters, window pictures, etc. Kindergarten children are generally the target group for this type of leisure activity as, among other things, fine motor skills and a sense of colour and shape are trained and "tangible results" are achieved.
Task description
The main task of the work is to design, conceptualise and build a Computing Science system that is able to automatically generate a (roughly gridded) pegboard image according to a given image. A given image must be analysed and a device to be built must correctly position the correspondingly coloured pegboard beads on a pegboard. The subsequent ironing step should be performed manually - it is no longer part of the automated process. How this is realised is ultimately up to the student; it is possible, for example, to use Fischer technology or similar. If necessary, the system can be expanded to include an image capture ("passport photo function") or a web-based "order".
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