brad geilfuss - mas961, problem set 6

for this problem set, i chose fall as my most revered thing. as a representative item for fall, i chose this pumkin. the goal of my applet is to divide the image up into finite pieces, and then to model the pieces as weights on springs, so that pulling on any given part of the image will stretch it and then releasing it will allow the image to flow a la scooby doo. (thereby creating a very frightful pumkin! :) unfortunately, i'm still having trouble getting java to cooporate. so right now i have:

an algorithm which identifies parts of the image which it thinks are pumkin. it gives the highest mass to these pieces. here is the applet which seeks and weights pumkins

what i don't have is:

code that doesn't cause java to throw up when i divide the image into any reasonable small (read: indecernably divided) segments. java seems to have some memory problems with large arrays of Image.
code that lets the pieces spring around (only because i've been stuck on the above