One Billion is not so much: Project starts for the largest Tangram silhouettes database

Italian Association Kromasoft intends to astound the Art & Puzzle world by starting the creation of the largest database of patterns based on Tangram, or similar dissection puzzles, on their site www.tanzzle.com.
The silhouettes generated by a computer program are inserted into the database through the intervention of the human being in choosing, naming and adding comments to each pattern. The software, Tanzzle v.1.1 for Windows, can be freely download from the site. The help of the Internet Community is requested and encouraged.

The Project page comments: “Tanzzle is an endless source of new challenging and visual impressive silhouettes. The number of configuration which can be generated is so high that, at an high confidence level, the pattern chosen by someone in a Tanzzle session will never be seen again by him, and even by nobody else. ‘Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen’ told Thomas Gray, but it's an human feature to discover, to describe, to collect and to share. That is the starting idea in our project.”

The tzl file format used by Tanzzle software is the file format for storing the appropriate information on the patterns. They need less than 100 bytes for typical silhouettes. Therefore as few as 100 Gb is expected to store one billion of patterns, that is the target of the project. Time scheduling has not been declared.

People, Schools and Association interested to the Project can get more information at www.tanzzle.com/progetto.html, available both in the Italian and English version.
Kromasoft is a non profit cultural association, based in Salerno, Italy, committed in the diffusion of the artistic and pedagogical features of Tangram and similar games.