Mosaic Me, Baby!
Remember those really cool photomosaics that were all the rage a few years back? You know, the pictures of famous movie or cartoon characters or scenes of the beach or whatever that looked fine from far away, but when you got closer, you noticed that the pixels of the photo were actually made up of several tiny pictures. I used to think those were some darn cool things, especially the Disney ones. Like, you’d have a picture of Mickey Mouse, made of hundreds of tiny pictures of Mickey Mouse.
NickyNax found a program for the MAC that can do that for you.
[I] stumbled across a program called MacOSaiX that makes photo mosaics for you. You just tell it what picture you want the final product to look like and what pictures to use in the mosaic and it does all the work itself while you sit back and watch. It was quite fascinating to watch as the pieces fell into place and the final image began to emerge.
He took a picture of himself from a recent cruise vacation, and using 1600 pictures from that cruise, made a mosaic. Here’s the starter picture:
And check out the result after the jump.
