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Dev tools · November 1, 2012

UChicago admissions asked me to find Waldo. I did.

Detecting Waldo with Python for UChicago College Admissions - jacobsevart/waldo_uchicago

UChicago admissions asked me to find Waldo. I did. launched on November 1, 2012 with 149 votes, #13 of 543 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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In plain words

This is a Python tool that detects Waldo's location in images, created as a response to a University of Chicago College Admissions prompt. The project uses computer vision techniques to automatically identify and locate the character in Where's Waldo? puzzles. It's designed for students applying to UChicago who received this creative coding challenge as part of their admissions process. The tool is available as an open-source repository for developers interested in image detection algorithms.

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