Basically it's a programme which will take any number of photos you specify in a directory, and use them to make a mosaic of whatever photos you choose.
The end result is a picture that looks something like the photo made up of a bunch of your photos.
You can zoom in and see clearly which photos make up the mosaic, providing that you set the programme to create a large size mosaic picture.
The success of the mosaic... The quality or how much it looks like the original photo, seems to vary depending on various settings in the programme. Such as how many, and what kind of photos the programme is given to choose from to make up the mosaic and the photo chosen to be made into the mosaic. Etc.
close-up of the eye region in the mosaic of the photo of Chloe
I let the programme choose from over 3,000 photos in my collection - from 2002 to present.
Each of my mosaics is 1500 to 2000 tiles per mosaic. (That's 1500 to 2000 tiles of photos used to make up the mosaic.)
And I allowed 5%-10% alteration of the photos. (And the alteration would seem to be in brightness.)
It's somewhat amusing to look at which photos make up the picture.
close-up of the nostril region in the mosaic of the photo of Chloe
For example, a photo of my pal Michael R. was used for my nostril opening. And photos of my own gallbladder make up my one cheek and a significant portion of my forehead... as well as Malcolm the dog's cheek.
The programme can be crude. And I don't mean that in the technical sense.
One of the photos chosen and placed in one of the mosaics was rather awful.
I'm not going to mention that because it would be decidedly rude to point it out. I myself immediately felt like scolding the programme most harshly for it's very naughty misbehaviour - it really should be ashamed of itself.
If you find it, please do not 'give it away' be so crass as to mention it.
WARNING: The full size mosaic files are very large (7mb - 13mb).
Fun program. My wife has been using it for some time to make mosaics of our daughter. They look kind of freaky to me, but then again, so does our daughter, sometimes...
Posted by Dave | Monday 16 May 2005 6:41AM
Well, it is kind of freaky! haha.
My gallbladder plastered over my face certainly seemed kind of creepy!
But I have to say, the programme worked better than I had expected it to.
Posted by Chloe | Monday 16 May 2005 2:03PM
That is a very interesting program! Amazing what it can do!
Posted by Desiree | Tuesday 17 May 2005 2:28AM
Wow, that's a pretty nifty tool! I can't wait until the Farmer's market starts up again, Fresh veggies mmmmm!
Posted by Tim Pintsch | Sunday 22 May 2005 1:08PM
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Fun program. My wife has been using it for some time to make mosaics of our daughter. They look kind of freaky to me, but then again, so does our daughter, sometimes...
Well, it is kind of freaky! haha.
That is a very interesting program! Amazing what it can do!
Wow, that's a pretty nifty tool! I can't wait until the Farmer's market starts up again, Fresh veggies mmmmm!
