Over the weekend I had some moments of boredom and 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.
I decided to test it out using the picture that I used to make the banner on top of this blog. It’s a picture of me on the deck of the Disney Magic as we set sail from Florida during the cruise last October. I have (thanks to my friend Tyler) well over 1000 pictures from that cruise, so I figured it would give me a huge source of related photographs from which to build the picture.
Here is the source image:
You’ll notice in the banner above I not only flipped the image, but I also made the water ans sky look bluer than it actually was in real life. Just ignore that little fact. I’d hate to ruin the photoshop magic. Or something.
Anyway, after pressing just a few buttons and letting MacOSaiX do all of the grunt work, I was presented with this delightful photo mosaic:
Pretty snazzy if I do say so myself!
That’s 1600 pictures taken from my personal library of photographs that I (and Tyler) took on that trip, all pooled together to recreate one of my favorite pictures from the cruise. And I used a large enough version of the source image that I could now print a pretty good sized version of the mosaic and have it matted and framed and actually hang it on my wall.
I think it makes a unique and personalized keepsake of the vacation.
Cool. I like the result!
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That is quite different. Takes a lot of talent to do that. I wish I could just have someone do it for me. Nice idea though.
A cruise would be nice if I could afford it, or I wasn’t fat. Not fat like I need an crane to get out of bed but overweight enough that boys won’t talk to me. They would rather talk to my sister or friends. I am always left watching our drinks. It is a good thing, I guess, because I just get drunk then and not feel so bad for myself. A lot of times some desperate guy will be drunk enough to make out with me but never go all the way. NEVER. I wish they would. I would just like them to use me so I could pretend, for one night, that someone wanted me. It would make me feel alive for one moment instead of how dead I feel inside. I want them inside me. DEEP.
Anyway, I like the blog. I will keep reading. I like to read on the web. Helps me not to feel so alone. Well I do have my cats but they don’t let me touch them. I guess it is from eating their can food that one time. ONE TIME. Sometimes I think they are plotting againist me but I know they are not that smart.
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