I am trying to create a puzzle type game that allows people to click on a portion of an image, click another image, then swap the two.

Hello, I want to try to create a puzzle type game where I can allow the user to see the original image

as a figure 1, and then a figure 2 mixed image, and then have the person try to click and rearrange

the images. I already have a code that breaks the original image into a 3x3 random mix and

scrambles the image, I am just not sure how to code it to where someone can click on one of the

squares, then click on another one and swap the two to assemble the original image. The code I

have below only divides the original picture into a 3x3 mix.

initiation = menu('Would you like to take a mental health break and complete our puzzle?','Yes','No');

if initiation == 1

% First you need to load in the image you are trying to use and crop the

% image to match the dimensions desired

imageDATA = imread('puzzleIMAGE.jpg');

DIMENSIONSnew = size(imageDATA) - rem(size(imageDATA), 3);

imageDATA = imageDATA(1:DIMENSIONSnew(1),1:DIMENSIONSnew(2), :);

%You need to arrange the puzzle in the 3 x 3 dimensions

DIMENSIONSblocks = DIMENSIONSnew./[3 3 1];

blocks = mat2cell(imageDATA, DIMENSIONSblocks(1)*ones(3,1),

DIMENSIONSblocks(2)*ones(3,1), DIMENSIONSblocks(3));

% sort the 3 x 3 pieces randomly this will scramble the original image and

% give the puzzle effect

blocks(1:9) = blocks(randperm(9));

%%Set one block to zero

blocks(ceil(9*rand(1))) = {zeros(DIMENSIONSblocks, class(imageDATA))};

% return back the original images

puzzle = cell2mat(blocks);

%Plot the input image and plot the final scrambled output image

figure(1)

image(imageDATA)

figure(2)

image(puzzle)

end

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

There are lots of these N-puzzle games in the File Exchange:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange?q=fifteen

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange?q=15+puzzle