The picture above comes from the recent paper PackIt! Gamified Rectangle Packing by Thomas Garrison, Marijn J.H. Heule, and Bernardo Subercaseaux. PackIt! is a turn-based pen and paper game that is played on an (initially blank) m×n grid of squares. On turn number t, a player is required to fill in a rectangular block of squares whose area is either eq…
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