The java applet that runs the puzzle is courtesy of Axel Fontaine, who lives
just south of the city of Brussels in Belgium. Axel invited free use of his fine applet which you can, I hope,
download here. The fine image
is from a Usenet image archive and the name of the artist is NOT known. We thank them both! If the artist
later becomes known and would prefer that this fine puzzle be removed, I would be happy to oblige.
The above text was written in the summer of 2000 when the slider puzzle page was
first created. Yesterday, June 21st 2001, in accessing the animalpix.net website, I found two versions of the above image. I see that that site no longer exists,
however.
Under "raccoons" was the image as I saw it a year or so ago on a Usenet site. Under "wild raccoons" is the
full image with the artist name indicated as being Carl Brenders. The original 1986 print was entitled "Double
Trouble - Raccoons".
And also another brilliant Brenders raccoon
1984 image. Animalpix stated clearly that they did not own copyrights having found their images on newsgroups,
such as alt.binaries.pictures.animals, and alt.binaries.pictures.misc. I have left the image here while I
try to obtain approval from the artist. In "Google" I went through 37 pages of Carl Brenders listings but so far at least have not found where
to contact him directly. There are a multitude of sites where you can acquire his brilliant prints and books,
and even jigsaw puzzles are listed. I did
find, in my search, many Brenders images available - at one site 22 large 1024 x 768 images including this image. We shall
continue to try to contact the artist. Does anyone who reads this have a means to contact Carl Brenders that
they would like to share?
I should also note that a superb "Lake" applet presentation of the above image is also
on this site. Click here to
view that page.
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